Free from the author @
Amazon (not KDP Select; this is apparently being price-matched to another store which is unfree in Canada, as far as I can tell):
Baby by Robert H. Lieberman (
IMDB), who, if I've linked to the right guy, has directed quite a lot of TV produced in Canada (including an episode of The X-Files, though not one of the better ones, IMHO). Anyway, his novel is a quirky literary drama focused on eccentric characters (this comes with the subtitle "a haunting novel of obsession, cultism, and greed" on the cover image, which is apparently pulled from the quoted LA Times book review), originally out from Random House's Crown Publishing imprint in 1981.
A page-turner that has received world-wide critical praise, “Baby” is the tale of aging Doris Rumsey, a hunched librarian who works in a middle school. Her health rapidly deteriorating, Doris is convinced she is dying, though it turns out this elderly woman is actually pregnant.
Claiming that she has never been with a man, Doris ultimately gives birth in a field to a baby girl. And, from the moment of birth, the child can sing— and sing as no other human being has ever sung.
This is the story of Baby and her other-worldly melody, of her fame, her exploitation, her kidnapping and the mother’s ultimate fate. It is a tale of modern day greed, lust and desire.
Best-selling novelist and award-winning film director Robert H. Lieberman takes us into a highly original story with a cast of finely drawn characters.