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How We Love
- Notes on a Life
- Narrated by: Clementine Ford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and best-selling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys.
There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mother and there is the past and there is the future but most importantly there is the now and everything that exists between them that has got them from one moment to the next. The now is where we find the golden glow where, for the briefest of moments, the sky rips open and we see what it is we are made of.
Tell me a story, he asked me.
And so I began.
Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and how it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery.
This tender and lyrical memoir explores love in its many forms, through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too young, about the pain and confusion of first love - both platonic and romantic - and the joy and heartache of adult love. She writes movingly about the transcendent and transformative journey to motherhood and the similarly monumental path to self-love. 'We love as children, as friends, as parents and, yes, sometimes as sexual beings, and none of it is more important than the other because all of it shows us who we are.'
How We Love is heartfelt, funny, confessional, revelatory, compassionate - and essential listening. It shows us to ourselves in moments of unwavering truth and undeniable joy.
Clementine Ford is a writer, broadcaster and feminist community builder living in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the best-selling author of the feminist manifestos Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys, which have also been published to great acclaim in the UK and the US. In 2017, she won the Matt Richell Award for Best New Writer of the Year at the ABIAs.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-2021
I cried, I laughed and I remembered the painful times. A beautiful read indeed.
What is there to say? Clementine Ford is a genius in portraying and relaying the story of women’s experience of life. Nothing short of perfect. Thank you clementine for the love ❤️
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- Joshua
- 17-11-2021
I will read this many times
This book will go along with the classics that I re read each year. It was lovely, funny and heartbreakingly beautiful
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- Casey Finigan
- 08-06-2022
Heartwarming, heartbreaking, honest, & incredible.
This books is a beautifully written collection of stories about love. While they are the authors stories, they are so raw, honest and relatable that you are immersed in every word while reflecting on your own experiences of love. The first and last chapters are some of the most beautiful words ever written.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-11-2021
i loved this book
I laughed and cried. Brough back so many memories from my teenage years and beyond. very heart felt.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-2021
Beautiful
Clem’s two former books stoked the fires of rage burning inside of me. This book, a memoir, an ode to love, showed Clem’s softer side. Her trip down memory lane during those horrifying years of teenage angst reminded me of my own youth. A phase I don’t want to repeat. Overall I loved this book, she can do no wrong in my eyes. Here’s to love, and to loving ourselves.
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- Siobhan Blake
- 09-11-2021
I’m not crying, you are!
Clementine was spot on in the introduction of this book. I laughed and I cried throughout. A beautiful expose on how we experience love in so many ways throughout our lives. I often say that Clementine’s works are like reading through (much better written) excerpts of my own journals. This book is no exception.
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- Christy
- 15-11-2021
Beautiful ♥️
I must be a similar age to you Clementine, as the way you described your life was so similar to mine. I was brought straight back into the 90’s feeling like an awkward teenager. Then spending my twenties riding my bike around Melbourne, going out, drinking, dating, music festivals, lots of fun! In my thirties I married a guy who was completely wrong for me and after too many years, I left with a daughter in toe. Now in my 40’s (42 to be exact) I finally feel like I’m happy where I am, a mother, a business owner, a friend. Thank you so much for sharing your life/love stories, they’ve made me think about my own. xx
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- Luciana
- 28-01-2022
Impossible not to fall in love with Clem's story
What a beautiful book. I loved every minute. Thank you for sharing your story, your wisdom, your life, your love. I can see many books inside this one. I would love to read more about your childhood, about what you found out about your mother's life before she met your dad, a guide on how to co-parent! Please keep on writing, you are so gifted. x
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- porkncheez
- 04-02-2022
Beautiful stories
These are some of the most relatable stories of love, relationships, and parenting. Beautifully told.
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- anita
- 10-11-2021
Loved it
I was nodding and saying ‘yes’ out loud all the way through. Clementine’s recollections are touching, tender and oh so familiar. Tears flowed by the end! Brava Bella and thank you 🙏🏻🧡
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