When Things Are Alive They Hum

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Ultimo Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 348 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. For Marlowe, they are bound by her fierce determination to keep Harper, born with a congenital heart disorder, alive.Now 25, Marlowe is finally living her own life abroad, pursuing her studies of a rare species of butterfly secure in the knowledge Harpers happiness is complete, having found love with boyfriend, Louis. But then she receives the devastating call that Harpers heart is failing. She needs a heart transplant but is denied one by the medical establishment because she is living with a disability. Marlowe rushes to her childhood home in Hong Kong to be by Harpers side and soon has to answer the question what lengths would you go to save your sisterWhen Things Are Alive They Hum poses profound questions about the nature of love and existence, the ways grief changes us, and how we confront the hand fate has dealt us. Intensely moving, exquisitely written and literally humming with wonder, it is a novel that celebrates life in all its guises, and what comes after.

ISBN: 9781761150081