{"product_id":"heavens-special-mum-lorraine-townsend-9780992415105","title":"Heaven's Special Mum","description":"\"Just off the main building on the open verandah, there are many more little patients. It's not a sunny veranda and it can be cold. The head of each bed is pushed up against the brick wall in a row down the veranda. Each child is fixed in place in some way.\" This was how Beryl Wyber spent much of her childhood in a hospital system which was overwhelmed by the polio epidemic of the 1930s: confined to a hospital bed at 17 months with spinal TB and allowed to see her mother for only an hour a week. On her release at 13 after 12 years in hospital she is mystified by things she had never experienced. No one had ever shown her a stove, a carpet, a chest of drawers or an electric fan. Beryl's story of discovery and her building a life in her teens is told by her daughter, author Lorraine Townsend. My book \"Heavens Special Mum\" is a moving tribute to the triumph over adversity ending in tragedy which was my Mother's life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorraine Townsend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0992415101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780992415105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorraine Townsend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Lorraine Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441567838463,"sku":"9780992415105","price":17.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36f7d450-b4c4-44ea-8a43-1a36619256e6.jpg?v=1777191711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heavens-special-mum-lorraine-townsend-9780992415105","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}