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No Obvious Distress (A John Murray Original)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Amanda Quaid
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    144
    Publisher:
    John Murray Press (October 7, 2025)
    Imprint:
    John Murray
    Language:
    English
    Audience:
    General/trade
    ISBN-13:
    9781399824569
    ISBN-10:
    1399824562
    Weight:
    5.76oz
    File:
    hbgusa-hbgusa_onix30_P9951261_04132026-20260413.xml
    Folder:
    hbgusa
    List Price:
    $21.99
    Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
    Pub Discount:
    65
    As low as:
    $16.93
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-HACH
    Discount Code:
    A
    Dimensions:
    5.385" x 8.5"
    Case Pack:
    72
  • Overview

    'Funny, moving, wise and constantly surprising' Martin Chilton, Independent Memoir of the Month

    'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl

    'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson
    Patient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.

    On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda's marriage, work and family life as she knows it.

    Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda's unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.