Some Body to Love

£9.99

‘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.

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‘A treatise on empathy and grace in extraordinary circumstances’ Jojo Moyes

What does it mean to be a woman? To live in a woman’s body?

Alexandra Heminsley thought she knew, but then her world turned inside out. Having just resurfaced from fertility issues, childbirth and early parenthood, she was told her then-husband was going to transition.

Some Body to Love is Alex’s profoundly open-hearted memoir about losing a partner but gaining a best friend, and together bringing up a baby in a changing world. By baring her own unique scars, Heminsley makes a vital manifesto on the unifying resilience that can be found in modern motherhood.

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Praise for Some Body to Love:
‘Insightful and wise, generous and kind’ David Nicholls
‘A brave, thoughtful and timely book’ Naomi Alderman
‘A testament to how family and love can be whatever shape we want them to be’ Red
‘It took my breath away’ Bryony Gordon
‘A book with a wild, deep, joyous, tender love of people at its heart’ Emma Jane Unsworth

Additional information

Weight 0.206 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 13 × 1.7 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

242

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

306.85092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K