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Some Body to Love

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'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.

© Alexandra Heminsley 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Jaw-dropping… This is an extraordinary, kind, and generous book about what it means to live in a woman’s body and the questions you ask yourself along the way.

Independent, *Books of the Year*

Staggering… Heminsley is unflinching in her exploration of her feelings.

Sunday Times

Heartbreak and happiness sit in tandem in Alexandra Heminsley’s wise and generous book.

Daily Mirror

Generous, calm and thoughtful… Some Body to Love argues cogently for greater openness and understanding towards different gender expressions…also page-turningly compelling

Observer

A vital call for compassion and awareness…a hugely hopeful and deftly written book – and one that might encourage greater empathy in how we respond to all kinds of difference

i

This insightful memoir covers some hefty subjects — gender identity, body image, infertility, divorce — with wisdom and grace

Good Housekeeping

Breathtakingly honest, warm and generous, Some Body To Love is a testament to how family and love can be whatever shape we want them to be

Red

A treatise on empathy and grace in extraordinary circumstances

Jojo Moyes

This memoir is going to change a lot of people’s lives, and I think it’s going to change the conversation

Big Scottish Book Club

Insightful and wise, generous and kind

David Nicholls
Author Alexandra Heminsley
Narrator Alexandra Heminsley
Duration 7 hours and 2 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473590229
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Autobiography: sport, Biography and non-fiction prose, Gender studies: women and girls, Memoirs, Psychology of gender, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology: family and relationships
Availability AU, GB, IE

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