{"product_id":"9780992415105","title":"Heaven's Special Mum","description":"\"Just off the main building on the open verandah, there are many more little patients. It's 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.\" 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. Beryl's story of discovery and her building a life in her teens is told by her daughter, author Lorraine Townsend. \u003cbr\u003eMy book \"Heavens Special Mum\" is a moving tribute to the triumph over adversity ending in tragedy which was my Mother's life.\"\"","brand":"Lorraine Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010290598128,"sku":"9780992415105","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780992415105_p0.jpg?v=1763947194","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780992415105","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}