Book 2, Chapter 12, (Baby Dreams) Summary

September 2000 Clare = 29

Clare has dreams of babies, her mother, stillborn children and pools of blood.

Saturday, September 23, 2000 Henry = 37: Clare = 29

Clare feels like drawing, she has no inspiration and feels empty even though she is pregnant. She sits in her studio and paints a canvas red, and she watches the paint dry. Then she paints an anatomically correct heart. Veins support it as if it is trapped in a spider's web. She feels slightly better and believes she has found her baby's heartbeat.

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 Clare = 29

Clare loses the baby.

Book 2, Chapter 12, (Baby Dreams) Analysis

Clare's dreams are her subconscious warning her of the things that are to come and the uncertainty that this time is the right time for her to successfully have a child.

Clare's artwork enables her to feel hope and offers her a solution...