The Growing Season

You know when you read the back of a book and your neck hairs go all tingly? This is one of them. . . an inventive tale that'll leave you contemplating what the future holds.

Stylist

Sedgwick describes her off-kilter world brilliantly and she considers the big ideas in her novel from all sides like a true scientist. . . It’s smart and thoughtful writing – a novel to make you consider deeply what family means and what the not-too-distant future might hold.

Big Issue

I adored ex-physicist Sedgwick’s dazzling debut literary novel, The Comet Seekers, a critically-acclaimed, super-smart love story that’s anchored in an Antarctic scientific research centre but spans centuries and multiple locations. Her new one is just as brainy and ambitious… Clever stuff

Kerry Potter, Muddy Stilettos

This is an intriguing, eye-opening and potentially worrying glimpse into an alternative societal path

Jane Bradley, Scotland on Sunday

So enjoyed The Growing Season. . . Galloped my way to the conclusion, despite wishing it would never end. Smart & provocative.

Carys Bray, Twitter

The Growing Season poses a compelling what-if about the female body, technology and power

Sarah Ditum, Guardian

Sedgwick, a former biophysicist, handles the ethics and possibility of new fertility technology admirably, cementing her reputation as one of the most important new writers around

Diva

Part thriller, part dystopian fiction, The Growing Season takes a fascinating "what if" question and really runs with it

Running in Heels

An elegant and ingenious narrative, told with skill and sensitivity

Meg Howrey

An intriguing, eye-opening and potentially worrying glimpse into an alternative societal path.

Jane Bradley, The Scotsman

The Growing Season is an outstanding example of SF feminism

Atlantis

As our own reality draws closer to that of Sedgwick's speculations, the need for preemptive legislative, social and cultural change becomes ever-more pressing

Cherwell