{"product_id":"the-kingdom-is-yours-linda-appleby-9781035858422","title":"The Kingdom Is Yours","description":"'I've still got the diaries somewhere, scruffy from stuffing them in my handbag and covered with something just short of scribble. Five or six diaries. What was happening was earth-changing. I felt compelled to record it as faithfully as I could...' Linda Appleby During the 1990s, Linda Appleby, a brilliant university academic, kept a journal that combined a sharp sense of what was happening in - and in some ways, to - the world with an unintentional timeline of her own mental breakdown, which culminated in a stay at Cambridge's Fulbourn Hospital in the early 2000s. Current events from the period - the long war in the former Yugoslavia, the hostages in Lebanon, the Good Friday Agreement, the rise of Tony Blair - are intertwined with Linda's professional, domestic and romantic concerns. The result is an honest and unapologetic record of a keen mind gradually broken by a combination of external and internal pressures. Through it all, Linda's care for her children, her strong religious faith - which, though Christian, extends to a more than passing interest in both Muslim and Hindu beliefs - and academic grounding in philosophy somehow saved her from total disaster, and the book ends with a few entries in the mid-2000s, when Linda, having left Fulbourn, had been able to make a new life for herself in Cambridge. A few of the poems she was writing at the time are included in the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda Appleby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1035858428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781035858422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Austin Macauley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Linda Appleby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48013869809919,"sku":"9781035858422","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_edcaeb9e-cc23-4f34-93fd-0875621fc46a.jpg?v=1767745275","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-kingdom-is-yours-linda-appleby-9781035858422","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}