TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevenson,Helen
TI  - Love like salt: a memoir 
SN  - 0349007799
U1  - 920.72 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - London
PB  - Virago
KW  - Stevenson, Helen
KW  - Mothers
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Parents of chronically ill children
KW  - Cystic fibrosis in children
KW  - Cystic fibrosis
KW  - Patients
KW  - Family relationships
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 'Did Clara taste salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the sea.' Love Like Salt is a deeply affecting memoir, beautifully and intelligently written. It is about mothers and daughters, music and illness, genes and inheritance, writing and story-telling. It is about creating joy from the hand you've been dealt and following its lead - in this case to rural France, where the author and her family lived for seven years. And back again. 'I had always written, and until the birth of Clara I wrote for a living. Once I knew the Cystic Fibrosis gene had unfolded itself in our daughter's body, like a paper flower meeting water, I felt that to write, even if I had had time, or been able, would have been to squander a kind of power which was needed for tending and nurturing. Every moment became a moment in which I protected my baby. Some of it I did in secret, like a madwoman muttering spells. I thought of her as a candle, cupping my hand around her."-- Publisher description
ER  -