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Both quietly heartbreaking and suffused with a sense of wonder, Beecher’s beautifully crafted novel of family, loss and mourning is an evocative and profound meditation on the unexpectedness of life and the miracle of love.
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2021
It begins with a miracle: a baby born too small and too early, but defiantly alive. This is Joe.
Decades before, another miracle. In a patch of nettle-infested wilderness, a seventeen year old boy falls in love with his best friend, Jack. This is Edward.
Joe gains a sister, Emily. From the outset, her life is framed by his. She watches him grow into a young man who plays the violin magnificently and longs for a boyfriend. A young man who is ready to begin.
Edward, after being separated from Jack, builds a life with Eleanor. They start a family and he finds himself a grandfather to Joe and Emily.
When Joe is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, Emily and the rest of the family are left waiting for a miracle. A miracle that won't come.
Here Comes the Miracle is a profoundly beautiful story about love and loss; and about the beautiful and violent randomness of life.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781474610629
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 360 g
Dimensions: 218 x 138 x 28 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'I adored this novel. Very lovely' - Pandora Sykes
'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' - Charlie Gilmour, author of Featherhood
'Powerful, sensual, deeply moving... A stunning novel I read in two evenings' - Clover Stroud, author of The Wild Other
'An exceptional novel - subtle, accomplished, and powerful. It deals unflinchingly with death but also brings life, lived and unlived, tenderly and clearly into focus' - Anjali Joseph, author of Saraswati Park
'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' - Molly McCloskey, author of When Light is Like Water
'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' - Julie Cohen, author of Together
'Here Comes the Miracle may be a story about loss but it is also a testimony to life, survival and the revitalising powers of memory' - The Irish Times
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