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We All Come Home Alive

By: Anna Beecher
Narrated by: Anna Beecher
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 We All Come Home Alive is the story of a life told through the moments which remade it - from car crashes to first kisses, from the stumbling magic of drunkenness to the tearing open of birth - to offer consolation and companionship, deep wisdom and luminous beauty.

'Intelligent, poised and emotionally exacting. Beecher's evocative essays on life's defining moments unpick how we might be made and remade by life'
Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment©2024 Anna Beecher (P)2024 Orion Publishing Group Limited Essays Motherhood Parenting & Families Relationships

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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 (Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB)
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Anna Beecher writes about the breadth and depth of living in a body in this world, there is sharp clarity to her description and open armed tenderness for the human heart. I listened in one go, sometimes weeping.

Deeply moving, wise and beautiful

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Anna Beecher's memoir captures with clarity and poetic language a life including teenage bullying, the death of her brother and its resultant grief, moving to America and childbirth. All conveyed with beauty and laser sharp detail and intimately read by the author here.

Beautifully written and read

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beautifully written and performed. I loved every second and immediately starting again for the love and the music in your words.
John was a beautiful human being, his wisdom will always be missed, you did him good.

outstanding

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