henrymarlene 's review for:

How We Love by Clementine Ford

5.0

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Clementine Ford states this is a book about love, but not about how to love. "It is a book about life and all the ways we can be broken and pieced back together". Grief is love. Unrequited crushes are love. Friendships are love. The unconditional and completeness of loving a child. This was a short but monumental read. The love we read about is not new to many of us. Ford's memories allow us to experience how she has lived and loved, so candidly and openly. I am allowed into her heart and mind thought her words to feel along with Ford. I reminisced about my own loves and losses and relationships as I read. So many words come to mind: joy, happiness, heartache, compassion, truth and trust. The whole journey though this book is transformational: the love for and death of her mother, navigating adolescence and circling around to where she became a mother herself. Love really shows us all who we really are, and Ford delivers this as well. It is a reminder of how important love is in our lives, and how we all need to remember how wonderful it is to love.

"The time, like life, like love, like the beating of our own gloriously full hearts, goes on".

Thanks @allenandunwin for the ARC.