{"product_id":"9781849919395","title":"Speaking With Strangers","description":"A young girl leaves home, straight from school to live in London where she has been booked into a secretarial college, very much against her will.\u003cp\u003eAs the first part of her life was lived in sheltered isolation she battles with a world of mystifying strangers who seem more aware of her past than she is. She lives in a separate world of reality with her music and is unable to recognise what is happening around her as she searches for identity and meaning in a world of secrecy and hidden trauma. She becomes involved with a family who are battling with a member of the family suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder, also known as Dissociative Personality Disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe circumstances of the girl's life and that of the family have been taken from two real life cases in which I have been involved, not directly but with connected family. All the \"alter\" characters are described as they actually happened. Names and places and time have been altered and I have contrived a fictitious story between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea of combining the stories is to compare how two cases of psychotic behaviour can have such diverse conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chipmunkapublishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047802093808,"sku":"9781849919395","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849919395_p0.jpg?v=1763755348","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849919395","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}