{"product_id":"love-like-salt-by-helen-stevenson-9780349007786","title":"Love Like Salt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'It's a slice of a life . . . a complex, intelligent, beautiful, thoughtful, rather lyrical book'\u003c\/b\u003e -Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Act of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'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'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'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'\u003c\/b\u003e -Kate Kellaway, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'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'\u003c\/b\u003e -Eithne Farry, \u003ci\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'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'\u003c\/b\u003e -Jane Shilling, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Like Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is a human triumph ... it's all told in the most mesmerising of words, no adjective is extraneous and \u003ci\u003eLove Like Salt\u003c\/i\u003e flows with poetic precision ... Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eLove Like Salt\u003c\/i\u003e follows in the hallowed footsteps of Helen MacDonald's brilliant \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e or Cathy Rentzenbrink's \u003ci\u003eThe Last Act of Love\u003c\/i\u003e. These are not misery memoirs but reminders that life comes in all shades - that in the darkest moments, beauty and humour can be found'\u003c\/b\u003e -Francesca Brown, \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Did Clara taste salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the sea.'\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003ci\u003eLove Like Salt\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47365130485996,"sku":"9780349007786","price":28.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780349007786.jpg?v=1773026911","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/love-like-salt-by-helen-stevenson-9780349007786","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}