{"product_id":"eighteen-seconds","title":"EIGHTEEN SECONDS","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEIGHTEEN SECONDS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassification:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: BEECH, LOUISE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: ADLIB\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781837700202\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sidebar-box\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cheader\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"headline\"\u003ePublisher's Synopsis\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003csection\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sidebar-box\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy mother once said to me, 'I wish you could feel the way I do for eighteen seconds. Just eighteen seconds, so you'd know how awful it is.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI thought about it. Realised we could all learn from being in another person's head for eighteen seconds. Eighteen seconds inside Grandma Roberts' head as she sat alone with her evening cup of tea, us girls upstairs in bed. Eighteen seconds inside one-year-old Colin's head when he woke up in a foster home without his family. Eighteen seconds inside the head of a girl waiting for her bedroom door to open.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003eWriter, Louise Beech, looks back on the events that led to the day her mother wrote down her last words, then jumped off the Humber Bridge. She missed witnessing the horror herself by minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003eLouise recounts the pain and trauma of her childhood alongside her love for her siblings with a delicious dark humour and a profound voice of hope for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly Praise for \u003cem\u003eEighteen Seconds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eUpsetting\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003euplifting\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003einspiring\u003c\/strong\u003e' John Marrs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eAuthentic\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eunflinching,\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003emoving\u003c\/strong\u003e. Written with compassion and humanity and a great deal of love' S. E. Lynes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A \u003cstrong\u003epowerful\u003c\/strong\u003e memoir making sense of a complicated childhood' Madeleine Black\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e '\u003cstrong\u003eHaunting\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ebrave\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ebrilliant\u003c\/strong\u003e' Gill Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 'A \u003cstrong\u003eheart-breaking\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eheart-warming\u003c\/strong\u003e story - what courage to tell it, and tell it so well Liz Nugent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'I loved every word of this \u003cstrong\u003ehaunting\u003c\/strong\u003e memoir' Amanda Prowse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"ADLIB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40334336557154,"sku":"9781837700202","price":331.53,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1279\/5591\/files\/9781837700202.jpg?v=1683187726","url":"https:\/\/elexacademicbookstore.co.za\/products\/eighteen-seconds","provider":"Elex Academic Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}