Happiness: How to Build a Family out of Love and Spare Parts

by Heather Harpham

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A page-turning, shirt-grabbing true story that follows a one-of-a-kind family required to make nearly unimaginable choices

Happiness starts out as a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, an out-going, theatre-performing California girl, and Brian, an intellectual New Yorker with an unwavering writing routine. But when Heather falls pregnant, their magical interlude abruptly ends—Brian loves her, only he doesn’t want kids. So Heather decides to have their baby alone.

Mere hours after Gracie's arrival, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her, 'Get dressed, your baby is in trouble.' This is not how Heather had imagined motherhood. As concerns for her health grow, Brian and Heather begin a cautious return to each other. Happiness transforms heartbreak and parental fears into a lyrical meditation on love and happiness, in all their crooked configurations.

  • ISBN10 178607138X
  • ISBN13 9781786071385
  • Publish Date 7 September 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oneworld Publications
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 336
  • Language English