Love Like Salt

Affecting and beautifully written maternal memoir which muses on music and illness, genes and inheritance, writing and storytelling … an ultimately uplifting book about resilience and living the best life you can, even in the shadow of illness; and creating joy from the hand you’ve been dealt - Bookseller, ‘editor’s choice’

Motherhood, medicine and music are explored with a spellbinding intensity. This memoir is beautifully written and entirely emotionally honest … a celebration of a family who are determined to live as luminous a life as possible, to make a kind of poetry out of the everyday - Psychologies, ‘Book of the Month’

An extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious book about parenthood and the random blows that life deals us, as well as the quest to belong, the life of the mind and, ultimately, love. And what glorious prose: Helen Stevenson has a conjuror’s knack of seeming to throw everything in, and creating not a jumble, but something that makes absolute, awe-inspiring sense

A touching memoir about motherhood and illness that teaches powerful lessons about resilience and finding joy where you can - Good Housekeeping

This memoir is full of seeming tricks from fairy stories that turn out to have the weight of science behind them - Daily Telegraph