{ "item_title" : "Elements, The", "item_author" : [" "], "item_description" : "What does it mean to become a widow at 35?In her mid-thirties Kat Lister lost her husband to brain cancer. After five years of being a wife and one of being a carer, in love and in and out of hospitals, she became a widow.In the year following his death Kat seeks refuge in stories of grief and widowhood, but struggles to find a language that can make sense of her experience and the physicality of bereavement. Instead, she turns to the elements – fire, water, earth, air – on her quest to come to terms with her grief, to inhabit her body again, and to find out who she is now.The Elements is a story of love, pain, hope and, ultimately, transformation.'Powerful, humane and deeply affecting.' Sali Hughes'A moving, bruising and meditative memoir and love story ... Beautifully written, The Elements, will strike a chord with anyone who's been touched by grief.' ? Red Magazine'A staggering book. Kat writes with such hypnotic lyricism.' -- Terri White'A stunning and immersive examination of grief; of making a new future; the body as a site of wrongness and re-entry after bereavement ... it veers from melancholy to rage and joy.' -- Sinéad Gleeson'Strikingly honest' -- Sarah Ditum ? The Times", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/audiobook/61/73/9781004027361_CD360446_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.79", "our_price" : "12.79", "club_price" : "12.79", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "discount_pct" : "10", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00" } }

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