When Emily\'s morning sickness is not eased through homeopathy, and desperate to finish writing her first novel before the birth of her child, she is persuaded by her husband Laurence to try thalidomide to ease her symptoms, blissfully unaware of the devastating effects on her unborn baby.
Gradually, she starts to believe.
Abandoned by Laurence, Emily flees with her baby to her parents\' house on Regency Square, Brighton, where she is persuaded to follow her parents\' ideas on alternative medicine.
When Emily\'s morning sickness is not eased through homeopathy, and desperate to finish writing her first novel before the birth of her child, she is persuaded by her husband Laurence to try thalidomide to ease her symptoms, blissfully unaware of the devastating effects on her unborn baby
