Love Like Salt

Name: Love Like Salt
Brand: Hachette New Zealand Ltd
SKU: 9780349007786
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A Memoir

By Helen Stevenson

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Summary

Love Like Salt by Helen Stevenson is a deeply personal memoir exploring the author's journey as a mother dealing with the challenges of raising a child with cystic fibrosis. Through her poignant and candid narrative, Stevenson reflects on her struggles and triumphs, offering an insightful examination of love, resilience, and hope in the face of adversity. This touching account provides a heartfelt glimpse into the complexities of family life and the strength found in human connections.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you are drawn to poignant and heartfelt memoirs that explore the complexities of family life, love, and resilience in the face of challenges. The author offers a deeply personal narrative that beautifully intertwines themes of hope, parental devotion, and the enduring bond between mother and child.

A beautifully written memoir, in the vein of H is for Hawk and The Last Act of Love, about mothers and daughters, and living the best life you can, even in the shadow of illness.

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CHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'It's a slice of a life . . . a complex, intelligent, beautiful, thoughtful, rather lyrical book' -Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love 'A moving treatise on inheritance, not just of a disease like cystic fibrosis, but of our attitudes to living and loving, our sense of cultural and familial landscape, and how these intangibles pass down through generations. Stevenson picks apart her life like a strand of DNA to uncover just how we become the sum of our parts' Daily Telegraph 'A beautiful memoir . . . [Stevenson] is a novelist and a translator and her memoir is about translation in the larger sense. Translating the world is what we all do but she reminds us that one can hope - with a mind as intricately well read and original as hers - to translate misfortune; to absorb and see beyond it . . . Stevenson makes of poetry, fiction and philosophy a protective shawl for her story . . . Although intense she has a carefree wit' -Kate Kellaway, Observer 'Motherhood, medicine and music are explored with a spellbinding intensity. It is a beautifully written and entirely honest memoir... Stevenson acknowledges the pain and overwhelming melancholy of being the mother of a sick child but she also manages to wholeheartedly celebrate the life of her family, who are still determined to live as luminous a life as possible, to make a kind of poetry out of the everyday' -Eithne Farry, Sunday Express 'Stevenson is a writer and musician, and her memoir is distinguished by its ravishing prose and sensitive understanding of the role that loss, misfortune and grief play in the story of our lives' -Jane Shilling, Daily Mail Love Like Salt is a human triumph ... it's all told in the most mesmerising of words, no adjective is extraneous and Love Like Salt flows with poetic precision ... Ultimately, Love Like Salt follows in the hallowed footsteps of Helen MacDonald's brilliant H is for Hawk or Cathy Rentzenbrink's The Last Act of Love. These are not misery memoirs but reminders that life comes in all shades - that in the darkest moments, beauty and humour can be found' -Francesca Brown, Stylist 'Did Clara taste salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the sea.' Love Like Salt is a deeply affecting memoir, beautifully and intelligently written. It is about mothers and daughters, music and illness, genes and inheritance, writing and storytelling. It is about creating joy from the hand you've been dealt and following its lead.

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Love Like Salt by Helen Stevenson is a beautifully written memoir that intertwines themes of motherhood, illness, music, and inheritance. The book is praised for its emotional honesty and lyrical prose, offering a poignant exploration of resilience and creating joy amidst life's challenges. It celebrates familial determination to find light in the everyday while making sense of life's random hardships through an evocative narrative.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349007786

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 February 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Illustration: 6 illustrations by author's daughter

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 246g

Pages: 304

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Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Health & Wellness Helen Stevenson Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Helen Stevenson lives in Somerset with her husband and two daughters. She is the author of three novels and a memoir, Instructions for Visitors. She translates French fiction and teaches piano. Stevenson studied modern languages at Somerville College, Oxford.