Thanks to Hachette for the free advance copy of this book.

 - MADAME RESTELL tells the life story of an important historical figure I had no knowledge of before reading this book. Restell was a self-taught abortionist in the 1800s, and was loudly public about it and about the need for this kind of care.
- Wright tells this story with dry humor and sarcasm, and delights in Restell's over the top antics.
- It's both fascinating and saddening to see how rhetoric around and social acceptance of abortion has both changed greatly since the 1840s and also how it's stayed very much the same.