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Title: LOVE LIKE SALT
A MEMOIR
By: Helen Stevenson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0349007780
ISBN 13: 9780349007786
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Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 2 February, 2017
Pages: 304
Description: 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.
Synopsis: '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 story-telling. It is about creating joy from the hand you've been dealt and following its lead - in this case to rural France, where the author and her family lived for seven years. And back again.'I had always written, and until the birth of Clara I wrote for a living. Once I knew the Cystic Fibrosis gene had unfolded itself in our daughter's body, like a paper flower meeting water, I felt that to write, even if I had had time, or been able, would have been to squander a kind of power which was needed for tending and nurturing. Every moment became a moment in which I protected my baby. Some of it I did in secret, like a madwoman muttering spells. I thought of her as a candle, cupping my hand around her.
Illustrations: 6 illustrations by author's daughter
Publication: UK
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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