{"product_id":"2940150708686","title":"Bluebeat Boy","description":"What if you spent your whole life questioning your decisions, reliving and correcting your conversations? Permanently anxious, convinced that other people were assessing your every move. All day. Every day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps you’d live your life on the sidelines, better to miss out altogether than take part and fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what if someone new entered your life? A person with hope and optimism in abundance, who made the impossible seem attainable? Would you continue to hide, or seize the opportunity to change?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                       ***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon his own experiences with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, M.A. Horsfield has crafted a story that offers an insight into a life lived with mental health issues. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt turns heartwarming and discomforting his debut novel, Bluebeat Boy, details both the challenges and joys that accompany a young man growing up with anxiety disorder. It charts his fears, his anxieties, his decisions and their consequences, and the people who enter his life along the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                        ***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bluebeat Boy is a heart-rending tale exploring a young man’s personal journey through the miasma of thoughts and feelings associated with Anxiety Disorder as he faces the challenges of life and falls hopelessly in love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiving with the effects of Social Phobia, the narrator meets his polar opposite in the form of the bubbly Dee, an out-going soul, larger than life and full of energy. A woman that he finds fascinating. Their story begins at college, where a friendship is struck and Dee’s warmth, encouragement and uncanny ability to see him as he is provides him with a reason to believe in himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo totally different personalities, with backgrounds poles apart, and yet an affinity is struck that binds them together as they grow and move through life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon the author’s personal experience of living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Bluebeat Boy presents a touching and insightful look into the fraught mind of Anxiety. It offers a poignant reminder of the transience of life, whilst exploring relationships, family, tragedy and most of all, courage.”\u003cbr\u003eAnxious Times Magazine\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Martin Horsfield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166724309232,"sku":"2940150708686","price":4.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150708686_p0.jpg?v=1763752285","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150708686","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}