Polyamory
Necessary to Life
ISBN-13: 978-1-944934-13-2
Writer: Louisa Leontiades
Title: Necessary to Life
Subtitle: A Memoir of Devotion, Cancer and Abundant Love
Foreword: Michón Neal
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Publisher: Thorntree Press
Year of publication: 2017
Format: 133x203 mm (trimmed)
Pages: xii+233
Binding: paperbound in colour cover designed by Franklin Veaux
Cover photograph by Bolot/Vetta/Getty Images
Weight: 287gr.
Original price: USD 14.95
Supplier: Revaluation Books
Order Number: 67057391
Order Shipped: 20th July 2020
Entry Number: 2020010
Entry Date: 7th August 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A memoir of family, devotion and non-monogamy in the face of cancer and heartbreak.
Vilified by the media and threatened with the loss of her children for her outspoken non-monogamous lifestyle, Louisa Leontiades is, unbeknownst to the outside world, being defeated by mundanity. Four years of caring for toddlers and living in tracksuits has left her anxious, exhausted and virtually celibate. Her partner, Morten, fails in love with Yasmin, whose conservative Muslim family will never allow them to be together unless he leaves Louisa. Louisa herself falls for Janus, a terminal cancer patient looking for a mother for his children before he dies.
As Louisa and Morten seem poised to be torn apart, Louisa learns she has a potentially fatal tumour. Should she start a family with Janus (is she lives)? Escaping the prosaic ache of the commonplace will put Louisa and her family through heartbreak, tragedy and confrontation with the ever-present spectre of death.
A sequel to A World in Us: A Memoir of Open Marriage, Turbulent Love and Hard-Won Wisdom, Necessary to Life takes an unflinching look at the importance of seizing the moment and the costs of following your heart.
