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The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma.

Keely Cochrane has spent her whole life in Keinadraig, a secluded island off the coast of Cornwall that even time seems to have forgotten. It isn't until her best friend Genevieve mysteriously leaves that Keely begins to question the ancient practices and strange laws of her home. When Private Investigator Jack Knight finds the body of Genevieve Sloan in a London hotel, his investigation leads him to the isolated island of Keinadraig - and to Keely.

Rebecca Schiller's All That Matters shines a light on the subject of women's rights in childbirth in a whole new fashion, setting birth in context amid the struggle for reproductive rights across the world. Frank and forthright, it is full of both powerful argument and her own rich personal experiences as mother, doula, campaigner, and researcher.