![]() ![]() ![]() The expectation that she will “perform” to order, and be and do whatever the family expects of her, no matter what the personal cost, because her voice isn’t the biggest, or even heard. ![]() I don’t feel qualified to comment on how she portrays Anna’s experience neuro-difference, but what stays with me most are the moments in the story that I think many people must find themselves fighting through (I know I have): the moment when the family gathers and Anna doesn’t have a chair, because she’s the youngest and least important. Hoang tells Anna and Quan’s love story so exquisitely delicately, that dance of developing trust and setbacks, one step forward, one back, taking a chance on trust, and I was rooting for those guys from the get go.īeyond the love story between two people, Hoang is also telling a story of self-love, and self-acceptance, and this was so beautifully written. Helen Hoang’s The Heart Principle is a sensitive, moving, lovely, lovely book, and I have already recommended it to my lifelong friend and to my music tutor! On one level it’s a romance, exploring the relationship between Anna, a troubled musician with (at the start) unrecognised neurological differences, and Quan, who is recovering from serious illness, and coming to terms with the differences the illness has brought to the rest of his life. ![]()
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