We All Come Home Alive

‘Profoundly affecting’ GUARDIAN

‘Extraordinary. It made me cry’ MELISSA HARRISON

‘Wise and beautifully written’ SINEAD GLEESON

‘Made me feel that I too was more alive’ LUCY CALDWELL

A life is made up of many shocks -

The scream of wheels over asphalt as cars collide. The unexpected death of a loved one and the long trek of grief.

The brutality of teenage girlhood. The abiding temptation of hunger. The stumbling spinning magic of drunkenness.

The falling into love, for once utterly awake. The tearing open of a body and of reality itself that comes with birth and motherhood.

Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the moments which remade her in these wise and luminously beautiful essays, for readers of Ann Patchett’s These Precious Days or Maggie O’Farrell’s I Am, I Am, I Am.

Author Biography

Anna Beecher’s work is about love. She is interested in dignity, rebellion and lives shaped by loss. She is a graduate of the Fiction MFA at the University of Virginia and a winner of the $10,000 Henfield Prize for Fiction. Anna has written widely for theatre and performance and her work has been presented by venues including Lincoln Centre, Southbank Centre and the Barbican. She teaches creative prose writing at the University of Virginia.