No Obvious Distress : A John Murray Original
by
Amanda Quaid
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1399824562
ISBN-13
9781399824569
Publisher
John Murray Press
Imprint
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 3rd, 2025
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
162 grams
Dimensions
13.50 x 21.50 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
MemoirsPoetryPoetry / PoemsMemoirs
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From the Bridport Prize for Poetry winner, a shocking, witty and wise memoir-in-verse about womanhood, desire and family, and how a life-changing diagnosis turned everything on its head.
'Funny, moving, wise and constantly surprising' Martin Chilton, Independent Memoir of the Month
'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl
'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson
Patient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.
On 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.
Poetry 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, No Obvious Distress 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.
'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl
'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson
Patient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.
On 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.
Poetry 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, No Obvious Distress 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.
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