When Things Are Alive They Hum

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When Things Are Alive They Hum When Things Are Alive They Hum

Author: Hannah Bent

Category: Other2

Published: 2021

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My hum will be in everything – the wind, the sea, the sand, the air, in you. 'When literature is alive it hums, and rattles and warms and hurts and heals. Hannah Bent and her wondrous Harper and Marlowe have changed the way I've been going about my days. What a gift.' – Trent Dalton, author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies 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 twenty-five, Marlowe is finally living her own life abroad, pursuing her studies of a rare species of butterfly secure in the knowledge Harper's happiness...