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''Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous'' Roxane Gay

''Frank, funny, enthralling... Think of it as rehab for road-weary romantics, inviting us to redefine what constitutes a love story'' Observer

''Warning: you will WhatsApp multiple quotes to your friends from your sun-lounger'' Independent

Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else''s life.

In this intimate, frank and funny memoir in essays, CJ Hauser lets go of ''how life was supposed to be'' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose you

The Crane Wife A Memoir in Essays

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 1/14/2022
      ISBN13: 9780241503775, 978-0241503775
      ISBN10: 241503779
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      Book Synopsis

      ''Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous'' Roxane Gay

      ''Frank, funny, enthralling... Think of it as rehab for road-weary romantics, inviting us to redefine what constitutes a love story'' Observer

      ''Warning: you will WhatsApp multiple quotes to your friends from your sun-lounger'' Independent

      Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else''s life.

      In this intimate, frank and funny memoir in essays, CJ Hauser lets go of ''how life was supposed to be'' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose you

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