Baby Factory by Suleiman Ocheni
Having lived a fairly sheltered life, Aleeza is oblivious to the emotional turmoil and volatility of normal human existence... However, this changes and does so all at once.
She is shunted out of her comfort zone when she innocuously discovers inconsistencies surrounding the birth of her daughter. This is the catalyst that forces her to embark on a journey filled with daring thrills fraught with danger.
Along the way, circumstances make it so that she has to accept help from a blast from her not so distant past. Feelings she thought she had laid to rest scratch their way to the surface, further complicating the dumpster fire that has become her life.
This story follows Aleeza as she confronts a host of conflicting sentiments and fights to save her daughter, all while navigating the intricate web of relationships in her life.
Will she allow herself to be overcome by her new reality, or will she summon the courage she needs to turn her life around and welcome happiness back in?
My thoughts
This was a very good find on Netgalley.
The title of this novel drew me to request it a while back on Netgalley and it did not disappoint. Aleeza a young Nigerian woman living her life in Britain, just gave birth to a baby girl she named Remy. However, as Remy is immediately pronounced dead due to sepsis Aleeza demands to see her baby's dead body for confirmation. Her grief his halted as she realizes that the dead baby presented to her does not have a birthmark and therefore is not hers. Aleeza is convinced that someone in the hospital stole her baby. Of course this is difficult to prove.
Meanwhile Remy's father, Aleeza's ex, Richard is shocked to know that he was about to be a father. Aleeza told him nothing about the pregnancy. In trying to deal with the shock and his feelings about Aleeza the chain of events that follow is quite exciting.
I like the premise of the story. I knew nothing about Baby Factories prior to reading this topic was very interesting to me. I love Aleeza's determination throughout the story. I think the lengths she went to in quest to find her baby was really impacting. A mother's love is really something else indeed. The relationship between Aleeza and Richard was quite turbulent and romantic at the same time.
What was really good though was the ending. That was a shocker indeed.
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