We All Come Home Alive A Life in Shocks

<BR/><B>'Profoundly affecting' <I>GUARDIAN</I><BR/> 'Extraordinary. It made me cry' MELISSA HARRISON<BR/> 'Wise and beautifully written' SINÉAD GLEESON</B><BR/><B>'Made me feel that I too was more alive' LUCY CALDWELL</B><BR/><BR/> A life is made up of many shocks -<BR/><BR/> The scream of wheels over asphalt as cars collide. The unexpected death of a loved one and the long trek of grief.<BR/><BR/> The brutality of teenage girlhood. The abiding temptation of hunger. The stumbling spinning magic of drunkenness.<BR/><BR/> The falling into love, for once utterly awake. The tearing open of a body and of reality itself that comes with birth and motherhood.<BR/><BR/> Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the moments which remade her in these wise and luminously beautiful essays, for readers of Ann Patchett's<I> These Precious Days </I>or Maggie O'Farrell's <I>I Am, I Am, I Am</I>.<BR/>  <BR/>