Some Body to Love: A Family Story
Hardback | English
By (author): Alexandra Heminsley
''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.
''An honest, moving and authentic examination of the end of a relationship... Heminsley''s writing is sharply resonant'' SheerLuxe, ''The Best Memoirs & Autobiographies Of 2021''
''Insightful and wise, generous and kind'' David Nicholls