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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
'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 'Full of kindness, A Still Life will make you a
better person' CLARE MACKINTOSH AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE 2021 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. Her days are
watchful and solitary, lived out in the same hundred or so metres
around her home. But Josie's world is surprising, intricate,
dynamic. She has learned what to look for: the complex patterns of
ice on a frozen puddle; 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: her childhood bright with promise but shadowed by
confinement; her painful adolescence and her hopeful coming of age;
the struggle of her marriage, and the triumph of motherhood. And
then a most unexpected thing happens in Josie's quiet present: she
falls in love. A Still Life is a story of illness and pain that
rarely sees the light: illness and pain with no end or resolution;
illness and pain that we must meet with courage, joy, ingenuity and
hope. Against a world which values 'feel good' progress and
productivity above all else, Josie sets out a quietly radical
alternative: to value and treasure life for life itself, with all
its defeats and victories, with all its great and small miracles.
'A beautiful memoir, A Still Life is joy-lit: vivid, lovestruck,
hopeful and wise ... I've never come across a new writer with more
to offer the world' 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. I loved it' ELLA RISBRIDGER 'Could
not be more timely ... An immensely talented writer' LINDA GRANT
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