This Beating Heart
- Author Laura Barnett
- Narrator Helen Barford
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 8 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Birth control, contraception, family planning, Family life fiction, General practice / Family medicine, Modern and contemporary fiction, Relationships: friends / peer groups, Swimming and diving.
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What to expect
OBSERVER
At forty-three, Christina Lennox thought her future was settled: marriage to Ed, children, a house of their own.
But this is not that future: her marriage has ended, fractured by the stress of five rounds of IVF and two miscarriages. Overwhelmed by grief and disappointment, Ed has relocated to San Francisco and Christina's dream of becoming a mother rests on persuading him to let her go ahead with one final round of IVF, using the last frozen embryo they have stored at the clinic.
But when Ed drops a bombshell that threatens to undo everything Christina has strived for, she is forced, once again, to realign her plans: is this the end of her dream, or an opportunity to consider a different - perhaps happier - version of her future?
Critics Review
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Barnett’s well-crafted backlist is big on emotional acuity and this novel is no different, forging from Christina’s grief an insistence that we think more creatively when it comes to happiness, and especially to the shapes that our families might take.
THE OBSERVER -
A warm, emotional story with brilliant characters.
BEST MAGAZINE -
An uplifting tale about new beginnings.
HEAT MAGAZINE -
I found this beautifully told tale of disappointed motherhood moving, but the best bit for me was the lively South London scene Barnett conjures up.
DAILY MAIL -
Barnett writes beautifully about relationships and the possibility of finding a very different happy ever after from the one you were expecting.
SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE -
Laura Barnett weaves an inspiring story about shifting perspective and finding light in the darkness.
WOMAN'S OWN
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