Time Out of Mind
by Jane Lapotaire
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used; Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1860499775
- ISBN 13
- 9781860499777
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Synopsis
Jane Lapotaire, was one of the lucky ones who survived `a brain attack’, the 3rd biggest killer after cancer & heart attacks. This is her extraordinary story - full of rage, frustration, new love & cautious triumph - adapting to a life irretrievably changed.'Who are you when your brain is not you?'Jane Lapotaire is one of the lucky ones. Many people do not survive, let alone live intelligently and well again once they have suffered cerebral haemorrhage. In the long haul back to life - 'nearly dying was the easy bit' - she's learned much, some of it very hard lessons. Some friendships became casualties; family relations had to be redefined; and her work as an actress took a severe battering. The stress of living is felt that much more keenly when 'sometimes I still feel as if I am walking around with my brain outside my body. A brain still all too available for smashing by noise, physical jostling, or any form of harshness'. But she has survived and now believes it herself when people say how lucky she is.This is a very moving, darkly funny, honest book about what happens when the 'you' you've known all your life is no longer the same you.
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- Bookseller
- Brit Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3669395
- Title
- Time Out of Mind
- Author
- Jane Lapotaire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used; Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- ISBN 10
- 1860499775
- ISBN 13
- 9781860499777
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- April 24, 2003
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