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How We Love

Notes on a Life

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How We Love

By: Clementine Ford
Narrated by: Clementine Ford
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A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and best-selling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys.

There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mother and there is the past and there is the future but most importantly there is the now and everything that exists between them that has got them from one moment to the next. The now is where we find the golden glow where, for the briefest of moments, the sky rips open and we see what it is we are made of.

Tell me a story, he asked me.

And so I began.

Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and how it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery.

This tender and lyrical memoir explores love in its many forms, through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too young, about the pain and confusion of first love - both platonic and romantic - and the joy and heartache of adult love. She writes movingly about the transcendent and transformative journey to motherhood and the similarly monumental path to self-love. 'We love as children, as friends, as parents and, yes, sometimes as sexual beings, and none of it is more important than the other because all of it shows us who we are.'

How We Love is heartfelt, funny, confessional, revelatory, compassionate - and essential listening. It shows us to ourselves in moments of unwavering truth and undeniable joy.

Clementine Ford is a writer, broadcaster and feminist community builder living in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the best-selling author of the feminist manifestos Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys, which have also been published to great acclaim in the UK and the US. In 2017, she won the Matt Richell Award for Best New Writer of the Year at the ABIAs.

©2021 Clementine Ford (P)2021 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.
Gender Studies Love, Dating & Attraction Relationships Social Sciences Heartfelt Funny

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This is the first of Clementines books I have, where I opted for the audio book over the physical book & it’s amazing! Heading her read her story adds another level to the stories & emotions within it. The description of Heathcliff was one of many hilarious points in the book. The description of motherhood & her own journey with her mother was wonderful, relatable and heartbreaking. I haven’t even finished this book yet and I LOVE it. Honest, witty & beautiful

Amazing

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Wow! A fantastic insight into someone’s life. Not just anyone but someone whose words are really important to me, someone whose views are worth the time it takes to mull over and consider. Listening to this and getting a real sense of how Clementine is similar to me in terms of love and vulnerability but actually teaching that actually our experiences as women are more similar than they are different. I highly recommend this book and once I have absorbed what I have heard I’ll have a listen to one of her other books.

Fantastic

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A beautiful look at love in all its forms. From heartbreak to the enormity of parental love. I don't always love narration by the author, but this couldn't have been done by anyone else. Hearing her words in her voice is wonderful.

Beautiful

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Interesting, heartfelt and very relatable. I loved it and am ordering it for my closest friends!

Loved it!

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The warmth of the voice and the warmth of the words- an unique combination that made me look forward to listen to this audiobook as soon as I had a spare minute. I cannot describe how much I’ve enjoyed it and how much I found myself in so many of Clementine’s experiences. The way she talks about love - enlightening! Thank you, Clementine Ford ❤️

BEAUTIFUL not enough said

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