CHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS
OF THE YEAR 'It's a slice of a life . . . a complex, intelligent,
beautiful, thoughtful, rather lyrical book' -Cathy Rentzenbrink,
author of The Last Act of Love 'A moving treatise on inheritance,
not just of a disease like cystic fibrosis, but of our attitudes to
living and loving, our sense of cultural and familial landscape,
and how these intangibles pass down through generations. Stevenson
picks apart her life like a strand of DNA to uncover just how we
become the sum of our parts' Daily Telegraph 'A beautiful memoir .
. . [Stevenson] is a novelist and a translator and her memoir is
about translation in the larger sense. Translating the world is
what we all do but she reminds us that one can hope - with a mind
as intricately well read and original as hers - to translate
misfortune; to absorb and see beyond it . . . Stevenson makes of
poetry, fiction and philosophy a protective shawl for her story . .
. Although intense she has a carefree wit' Kate Kellaway, Observer
'Motherhood, medicine and music are explored with a spellbinding
intensity. It is a beautifully written and entirely honest
memoir... Stevenson acknowledges the pain and overwhelming
melancholy of being the mother of a sick child but she also manages
to wholeheartedly celebrate the life of her family, who are still
determined to live as luminous a life as possible, to make a kind
of poetry out of the everyday' Eithne Farry Sunday Express
'Stevenson is a writer and musician, and her memoir is
distinguished by its ravishing prose and sensitive understanding of
the role that loss, misfortune and grief play in the story of our
lives' Jane Shilling, Daily Mail 'Love Like Salt is a human triumph
... it's all told in the most mesmerising of words, no adjective is
extraneous and Love Like Salt flows with poetic precision ...
Ultimately, Love Like Salt follows in the hallowed footsteps of
Helen MacDonald's brilliant H is for Hawk or Cathy Rentzenbrink's
The Last Act of Love. These are not misery memoirs but reminders
that life comes in all shades - that in the darkest moments, beauty
and humour can be found' Francesca Brown, Stylist 'Did Clara taste
salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the
sea.' Love Like Salt is a deeply affecting memoir, beautifully and
intelligently written. It is about mothers and daughters, music and
illness, genes and inheritance, writing and story-telling. It is
about creating joy from the hand you've been dealt and following
its lead - in this case to rural France, where the author and her
family lived for seven years. And back again. 'I had always
written, and until the birth of Clara I wrote for a living. Once I
knew the Cystic Fibrosis gene had unfolded itself in our daughter's
body, like a paper flower meeting water, I felt that to write, even
if I had had time, or been able, would have been to squander a kind
of power which was needed for tending and nurturing. Every moment
became a moment in which I protected my baby. Some of it I did in
secret, like a madwoman muttering spells. I thought of her as a
candle, cupping my hand around her. A beautifully written memoir,
in the vein of H is for Hawk and The Last Act of Love, about
motherhood, music and living the best life you can, even in the
shadow of illness.
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