{"product_id":"9780753827758","title":"Why Not Me?","description":"Author: Barbara Want\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780753827758\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orion\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jun 2011\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis haunting memoir of grief recounts the death from cancer of Nick Clarke, much-loved BBC radio presenter of The world at One - and the aftermath - from his widow Barbara's point of view.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith painful honesty, Barbara lays open her ambivalent feelings about the illness as it progressed and her instinctive fear that this would be the end. As he got sicker, her fear grew, until he died an unfeasibly short time after his diagnosis.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarbara chronicles in unflinching prose her life after his death. A howl of anguish and anger, she describes how many of her friends and colleagues don't call and don't offer support - how alone she is and how she struggles to explain the unexplainable to her young twin sons. She has a breakdown and a short-lived relationship (met with condemnation from some of her friends), but knows the process of dealing with her grief is barely beginning.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47918992785566,"sku":"ING-9780753827758","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780753827758.jpg?v=1782802603","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780753827758","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}