{"product_id":"heavens-special-mum","title":"Heaven's Special Mum","description":"\u003cp\u003eÒJust off the main building on the open verandah, there are many more little patients. ItÕs not a sunny veranda and it can be cold. The head of each bed is pushed up against the brick wall in a row down the veranda. Each child is fixed in place in some way.Ó This was how Beryl Wyber spent much of her childhood in a hospital system which was overwhelmed by the polio epidemic of the 1930s: confined to a hospital bed at 17 months with spinal TB and allowed to see her mother for only an hour a week. On her release at 13 after 12 years in hospital she is mystified by things she had never experienced. No one had ever shown her a stove, a carpet, a chest of drawers or an electric fan. BerylÕs story of discovery and her building a life in her teens is told by her daughter,  author Lorraine Townsend. \u003cbr\u003e\nMy book ÒHeavens Special MumÓ is a moving tribute to the triumph over adversity ending in tragedy which was my MotherÕs life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lorraine Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44305701666977,"sku":"9780992415105","price":35.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/14mdrdyw-front-shortedge-384_e3d5dff6-c2b7-4d18-8aea-af34d1965953.jpg?v=1748233753","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/heavens-special-mum","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}