Some Body to Love : A Family Story Hardback
by Alexandra Heminsley
Hardback
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'A treatise on empathy and grace in extraordinary circumstances' Jojo Moyes'Today I sat on a bench facing the sea, the one where I waited for L to be born, and sobbed my heart out.
I don't know if I'll ever recover.' This note was written on 9 November 2017.
As the seagulls squawked overhead and the sun dipped into the sea, Alexandra Heminsley's world was turning inside out. She'd just been told her then-husband was going to transition.
The revelation threatened to shatter their brand new, still fragile, family.
But this vertiginous moment represented only the latest in a series of events that had left Alex feeling more and more dissociated from her own body, turning her into a seemingly unreliable narrator of her own reality. Some Body to Love is Alex's profoundly open-hearted memoir about losing her husband but gaining a best friend, and together bringing up a baby in a changing world.
Its exploration of what it means to have a human body, to feel connected or severed from it, and how we might learn to accept our own, makes it a vital and inspiring contribution to some of the most complex and heated conversations of our times. 'An honest, moving and authentic examination of the end of a relationship...
Heminsley's writing is sharply resonant' SheerLuxe'Insightful and wise, generous and kind' David Nicholls
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:14/01/2021
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- ISBN:9781784743079
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:14/01/2021
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- ISBN:9781784743079