{"product_id":"9781509815296-every-third-thought","title":"Every Third Thought","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn Life, Death, and the Endgame\u003cbr\u003eAn uplifting and moving investigation into how we think about death, \u003ci\u003eEvery Third Thought\u003c\/i\u003e is both guide and companion, always 'wise and humane' (Andrew Marr).\u003cbr\u003e\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450657091958,"sku":"9781509815296","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32855510.jpg?v=1760453727","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781509815296-every-third-thought","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}