{"product_id":"robert-mccrum-every-third-thought-2018-paperback","title":"Robert McCrum: Every Third Thought [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, \u003ci\u003eEvery Third Thought\u003c\/i\u003e is beautiful' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Mosse \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now, in his sixties, he is noticing a change: his friends are joining him there. Death has become his contemporaries' every third thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so, with the words of McCrum's favourite authors as travel companions, \u003ci\u003eEvery Third Thought\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a journey towards death itself. This is a deeply personal book of reflection and conversation - with brain surgeons, psychologists, hospice workers and patients, writers and poets, and it confronts an existential question: in a world where we have learnt to live well at all costs, can we make peace with dying?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mccrum, Robert","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53223364034899,"sku":"9781509815296","price":14.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53223364067667,"sku":"XV81509815296","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/mccrum-robert-robert-mccrum-every-third-thought-2018-paperback-1226962791.jpg?v=1773255457","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/robert-mccrum-every-third-thought-2018-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}