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We All Come Home Alive: A Life in Shocks

Anna Beecher

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Memoirs, Literary essays, Family & relationships, Pregnancy, birth & baby care

For readers of Maggie O Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am, a breathtakingly beautiful book about the shocks - of joy, of sadness, of survival - that make up a life, by one of our finest authors

'Profoundly affecting' GUARDIAN
'Extraordinary. It made me cry' MELISSA HARRISON
'Wise and beautifully written' SINEAD GLEESON
'Made me feel that I too was more alive' LUCY CALDWELL

A life is made up of many shocks -

The scream of wheels over asphalt as cars collide. The unexpected death of a loved one and the long trek of grief.

The brutality of teenage girlhood. The abiding temptation of hunger. The stumbling spinning magic of drunkenness.

The falling into love, for once utterly awake. The tearing open of a body and of reality itself that comes with birth and motherhood.

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 These Precious Days or Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am.

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Praise for We All Come Home Alive: A Life in Shocks

  • Beecher is a gifted writer with a knack for capturing the exquisite detail of intense emotions . . . Pain, joy, love, fear: these are the gifts and burdens of life, and in this profoundly affecting book, Beecher has articulated them with precision and beauty - Guardian

  • I could NOT put this down. We All Come Home Alive is an intricate and tender weave of girlhood, growing pains, and what it means to live inside our bodies. It's an utterly perfect book and Anna Beecher is a revelation

  • Intelligent, poised and emotionally exacting. Beecher's evocative essays on life's defining moments unpick how we might be made and remade by life

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Anna Beecher

Anna Beecher's work is about love. She is interested in dignity, rebellion and lives shaped by loss. She is a graduate of the Fiction MFA at the University of Virginia and a winner of the $10,000 Henfield Prize for Fiction. Anna has written widely for theatre and performance and her work has been presented by venues including Lincoln Centre, Southbank Centre and the Barbican. She teaches creative prose writing at the University of Virginia.

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