{"product_id":"no-obvious-distress-9781399824569","title":"No Obvious Distress","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings'' Roger Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Deft, daring, devastating and delightful''  Pádraig Ó Tuama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings'' Sarah Ruhl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda''s marriage, work and family life as she knows it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, \u003ci\u003eNo Obvious Distress\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda''s unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138262434135,"sku":"9781399824569","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399824569.jpg?v=1751918653","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/no-obvious-distress-9781399824569","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}