# Some Body to Love

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- Book: [Some Body to Love](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexandra-heminsley/some-body-to-love) ([Some Body to Love.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexandra-heminsley/some-body-to-love.md))
- Authors: [Alexandra Heminsley](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexandra-heminsley)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 2 min
- Narrated by: Alexandra Heminsley
- ISBN: 978-14-7359-022-9
- Published: 2021-01-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 7 h 2 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. '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 9 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. © Alexandra Heminsley 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021