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All of Us Atoms

A Memoir

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All of Us Atoms

Di: Holly Dawson
Letto da: Helena Bonham Carter
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'Extraordinary . . . The actor Helena Bonham Carter is the narrator, bringing fresh shape and clarity to Dawson’s deliberately fractured and impressionistic prose. What emerges is an original self-portrait and a compelling exploration of memory, identity and the self' - GUARDIAN, Audiobook of the Week

What makes us who we are? What stories do we inherit – and leave behind?

Faced with the prospect of losing her memory, a writer revisits the moments that changed her – from childhood to motherhood, loss and ill-health. Through shifting pronouns and perspectives, moving across place and time, each piece twists the kaleidoscope of existence to make sense of the present through the past. From the opening battle between her brain and her body, a conversation emerges between her collection of selves: the Daughter, the Sister, the Dancer, the Gardener, the Mother, the Girl-Who-Read-Woolf. Reliving her journey of becoming, she unpicks the fabric of fact and experience to stitch a new tapestry of personhood, both real and imaginary, mundane and profound.

All of Us Atoms offers a tender portrait of the tension between our drive to make sense of things and the freedom that comes from throwing categories away. It heralds the arrival of a major new literary voice, urging us to reframe and reclaim our own stories and revel in our mutable, messy, multitudinous selves.

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"Extraordinary . . . The actor Helena Bonham Carter is the narrator, bringing fresh shape and clarity to Dawson’s deliberately fractured and impressionistic prose. What emerges is an original self-portrait and a compelling exploration of memory, identity and the self" ('Audiobook of the Week')
"[A] playful , tender, form-busting memoir . . . All of Us Atoms contains multitudes; it's a celebration of the ties that bind us to one another, of the strength of women , and of the power of words to connect us and carry us forwards"
"A fragmented, elegantly constructed memoir that grapples with memory and selfhood. [ . . . ] The playful, impressionistic approach gives the effect of memory freshly caught, shimmering on the page. It is life writing at its best"
"Raw, brave and compelling – the sentences fizz with brilliance and beauty. To read Holly’s writing is to live it. She’s a genius, an alchemist, an artist-warrior" (HELENA BONHAM CARTER)
"Holly Dawson's All of Us Atoms is an extraordinary memoir, a blazing, incandescent love song to memory, to her children and, in all its sublime and intoxicating and tragic raiments, to life itself. This debut shook me to the core" (LILY KING)
"[An] intimate, abstract memoir that riffs on human interdependence"
"I loved it. The smarts, lyricisms, surprises and deep humanity of it all" (SUSIE ORBACH)
"All of Us Atoms is an extraordinary memoir. A love letter to a life and all the lives within it. Tender, epic, brutal and entirely unexpected. I loved it" (DENISE GOUGH)
"Brilliant, brave, wild and marvellous. Holly Dawson’s book embodies a woman’s capacity for laughter, tenderness, resilience and maternal love in a way that only the very best writing can do. Even when everything feels like it might be lost, she never extinguishes that glimmer of hope that that will save us all" (JULIET NICOLSON)
"With her unique and mesmeric voice, here Dawson undoubtedly claims her place as one of the most exciting and compelling essayists writing today. She plays with, unpicks and experiments with narrative in a compassionate and intimate exploration of selfhood, memory, family and belonging. This is a memoir destined to be read and read again" (LORI INGLIS HALL)
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