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Title: When Things Are Alive They Hum
Author: BENT HANNAH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 28/07/2021
Imprint: ULTIMO PRESS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
A heartbreaking work of wonder about the hum that connects us all
Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For
Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she
are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. For Marlowe, they are bound by her fierce
determination to keep Harper, born with a congenital heart disorder, alive.
Now 25, Marlowe is finally living her own life abroad, pursuing her studies of a rare species of butterfly secure in the
knowledge Harper’s happiness is complete, having found love with boyfriend, Louis. But then she receives the
devastating call that Harper’s heart is failing. She needs a heart transplant but is denied one by the medical
establishment because she is living with a disability. Marlowe rushes to her childhood home in Hong Kong to be by
Harper’s side and soon has to answer the question – what lengths would you go to save your sister?
When Things Are Alive They Hum poses profound questions about the nature of love and existence, the ways grief
changes us, and how we confront the hand fate has dealt us. Intensely moving, exquisitely written and literally
humming with wonder, it is a novel that celebrates life in all its guises, and what comes after.
ISBN: 9781761150081
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 384
Edition: 01