SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE 2021 'A manifesto for
recalibrating' DAILY MAIL 'I can't think of many books where the
reader feels so passionately on the side of the narrator' GUARDIAN
'A profound redefinition of the very idea of vitality' FINANCIAL
TIMES Josie George lives in a tiny terraced house in the urban West
Midlands with her son. Since her early childhood, she has lived
with the fluctuating and confusing challenge of disabling chronic
illness. But Josie's world is surprising, intricate, dynamic. She
has learned what to look for: the routines of her friends at the
community centre; the neighbourhood birds in flight; the slow
changes in the morning light, in her small garden, in her growing
son, in herself. In January 2018, Josie sets out to tell the story
of her still life, over the course of a year. As the seasons shift,
and the tides of her body draw in and out, Josie begins to unfurl
her history. And against a world which values progress and
productivity above all else, Josie sets out a quietly radical
alternative: to value and treasure life for life itself, with all
its great and small miracles. 'Full of kindness, A Still Life will
make you a better person' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'A Still Life is
joy-lit: vivid, lovestruck, hopeful and wise' MELISSA HARRISON
'Josie George is the kind of writer I strive to be ... A tough,
tender, beautiful book about existing in a body in the world' ELLA
RISBRIDGER 'Could not be more timely ... An immensely talented
writer' LINDA GRANT
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