Dancing on Broken Glass, Ka Hancock
Dancing on Broken Glass, Ka Hancock
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Dancing on Broken Glass

Author: Ka Hancock

Narrator: Amy Landon, Zach Villa

Unabridged: 13 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/31/2014

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women


Synopsis

Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They're both plagued with faulty genes—he has bipolar disorder and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry.

Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work—and they put it all in writing. Mickey promises to take his medication. Lucy promises not to blame him for what is beyond his control. He promises honesty. She promises patience. Like any marriage, they have good days and bad days—and some very bad days. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. Everything. Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is.

An unvarnished portrait of a marriage that is both ordinary and extraordinary, Dancing on Broken Glass takes listeners on an unforgettable journey of the heart.

About Ka Hancock

Ka Hancock has two nursing degrees and has spent most of her career working with psychiatric and substance abuse patients. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and has four children. Dancing on Broken Glass is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nance on July 22, 2022

POSSIBLE SPOILERS PRESENT WITHIN REVIEW Okay, so I finished this novel with tears streaming down my face along with a box of Kleenex by my side. This has got to be the saddest, most emotional book that I have EVER read! All I can say is WOW! How did the author pull this off without crying herself...o......more

Goodreads review by Suz on November 22, 2023

This book took me over a year to read for various reasons. I had seen it on Goodreads, and couldn't source it locally. I try not to buy books anymore as I only hold on to keepers. So Open Library was great, and I started reading it on quiet times at the service desk at work, this was slow going. For......more

Goodreads review by Trish on August 07, 2013

A RARE INSIGHT INTO BIPOLAR DISORDER: DEEPLY MOVING, SENSITIVE AND SMART Dancing on Broken Glass is life-affirming and unapologetically sentimental. It’s also a raw and realistic portrayal of people coping with life’s truly tough challenges. It’s about mental illness, up close and personal. And c......more

Goodreads review by JulesGrrl on May 19, 2012

I enjoyed the concept of this book as it is rare to read a love story that involves someone with bipolar disorder. Lucy is able to see past the illness and fall in love with the man, even when the realities of the illness rear their undeniable heads. I can tell, however, that this book is a "first"......more

Goodreads review by Anto on May 31, 2021

4,5 stelline «Lulu, ci sono tre cose che ti assicuro riguardo alla morte. Una è che la morte non è la fine. Sembra che lo sia – ecco perché le persone piangono – eppure non lo è. Due, che non è dolorosa. Un’altra questione molto importante, perché le persone hanno paura di ciò che non conoscono. N......more