Some Body to Love: A Family Story

Synopsis

'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.'Insightful and wise, generous and kind' David Nicholls

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

256 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781473569249

Related ISBNs:

9781473590229, 9781784743079, 9781529111460

Publisher:

Random House

Date of Addition:

03/17/22

Copyrighted By:

Onion Publications Ltd.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Parenting and Family, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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