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Some Body to Love
- A Family Story
- Narrated by: Alexandra Heminsley
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Some Body to Love
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Publisher's Summary
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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 9th 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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-05-2021
I wanted to love it
After listening to Running Like A Girl, I really wanted to love this book. I thought the book would be a more in depth look into transition. It felt like D was such a minor character in the book, I wanted to know more about D's side of the story and get more of an appreciation for what D went through. Perhaps Alexandra didn't feel like that was her story to tell however I was expecting a little bit more. Instead there were long sections where I felt like I was being lectured to and I found it to be quite repetitive and labored in parts. Alexandra is a great writer but I just didn't love it.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-11-2021
I loved this book.
Alexandra is an amazing author and reader. I fell in love with her writing after Run like a girl. this book was wonderful and has given me a deeper understanding to trans people.
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- Jessica w.
- 01-06-2023
A brilliant listen
I’ve loved reading Alexandra’s books and simply selected the book based on the author, I did not expect the book to have this story line … let alone it be a reality. I was taken on an emotional and educational journey and realise there are so many more things that I can do to support venerable women, the trans community and just to be a better community member. Thank you for the eye opening experience, it was simply incredible to listen to.
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