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

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