Here Comes the Miracle, Anna Beecher
Here Comes the Miracle, Anna Beecher
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Here Comes the Miracle
Shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

Author: Anna Beecher

Narrator: Grace Andrews

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2021

Synopsis

'I adored this novel' Pandora Sykes
'Incredibly moving' Charlie Gilmour
'I read it in two evenings' Clover Stroud
'Brilliant' Sarah Moss

It begins with a miracle: a baby born too small and too early, but defiantly alive. This is Joe.

Then, two years later, Emily, arrives. From the beginning, the siblings' lives are entwined.
Snake back through time. In a patch of nettle-infested wilderness, find Edward, seventeen-years-old, and falling in love with another boy.

In comes somebody else, Eleanor, with whom Edward starts a family. They find themselves grandparents to Joe and Emily.

When Joe is diagnosed with cancer, the family are left waiting for a miracle.

From one of our finest new authors, this is a profoundly beautiful novel about the unexpectedness of life and the miracle of love.

About Anna Beecher

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Come

Ho letto questo libro due anni esatti fa, tra il 24 e il 25 dicembre 2021. Nel commento a caldo scrivevo: “Tra 4 e 5 stelle. Che bello che è… tristemente bello e vero.” A più libri più libri 2023, me lo hanno consigliato direttamente quelli della casa editrice. Ho comprato la seconda copia. Avevo rim......more

Goodreads review by Jo_Scho_Reads

A family deals with a cancer diagnosis. A mother is torn in two trying to be optimistic and resilient for her beloved son, her first born. His sister attempts to live her life whilst dealing with the gradual deterioration of her brother, the constant in her world. A grandfather in his youth has feel......more

Goodreads review by Mr Pink Ink

Grief is a subject that is incredibly personal to everyone and I had a hard time relaxing into this book - do you know what I mean? When you're expecting all the sad things so you keep waiting for it to happen...? Here Comes The Miracle by Anna Beecher (thank you Jonathan Ball Publishers) is a beaut......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

At seventeen years old, Edward falls in love with his best friend Jack... but the relationship will never work. Years later, Edward has built a life with Eleanor, got married and started a family. They soon find themselves grandparents to Joe and Emily. Joe grows up to be a talented musician, and is......more

Goodreads review by Tasha

Review coming soon......more

Quotes

I adored this novel. Very lovely

What a gorgeous book. Lovingly told, with a poet's eye for the small miracles to be found in each passing moment. Such light and poetic prose, at times unspeakably tender. There were so many moments I found incredibly moving

Powerful, sensual, deeply moving ... A stunning novel I read in two evenings

An exceptional novel - subtle, accomplished, and powerful. It deals unflinchingly with death but also brings life, lived and unlived, tenderly and clearly into focus.

Anna Beecher has produced an evocation of loss and mourning that is nevertheless suffused with a sense of wonder - about the world and its objects, about different kinds of love, about the way our lives form round absences. In this quietly devastating novel, she attends, with tenderness and precision, to the details of both life and death. Here Comes the Miracle is a work of depth, sorrow, and great beauty.

A lyrically-written tale of loss, fear and the miracle of love, which finds great significance in small things and quiet moments. Painful and beautiful.

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