How to Save a Life Paperback – 30 December 2016

Sara Zarr . Usborne Publishing . English

From the bestselling author, Sara Zarr, comes the remarkable story of what it means to be a family and the many roads we can take to become one. Jill MacSweeney just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she’s been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends everyone who wants to support her. and when her Mum decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she’s trying to replace a lost family member with a new one. Mandy Kalinowski understands what it’s like to grow up unwanted to be raised by a mother who never intended to have a child. So when Mandy falls pregnant, one thing she’s sure of is that she wants a better life for her baby. It’s harder to be sure of herself. Will she ever find someone to care for her too? As their worlds change around them, Jill and Mandy must learn both to let go and hold on and that nothing is as easy or as difficult as it seems.

Categories: Action & Adventure

About the Author

Sara Zarr is the acclaimed author of nine novels and Courageous Creativity: Advice and Encouragement for the Creative Life. She’s a National Book Award finalist and two-time Utah Book Award winner. Her books have been variously named to annual best books lists of the American Library Association, Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, the Guardian, the International Reading Association, the New York Public Library and Los Angeles Public Library, and have been translated into many languages. She has served as a judge for the National Book Award. Sara has written essays, creative nonfiction, and short fiction for Image, Hunger Mountain online, Response, Gather, and Relief Journal as well as for several anthologies, and is a MacDowell Fellow (2014). Sara also hosts and produces the This Creative Life podcast (2012-2015; 2020-). Her first book, Story of a Girl, was made into a 2017 television movie directed by Kyra Sedgwick.

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