Name: Tell Me the Planets By Ben Platts-Mills
SKU: 9780241976838
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Tell Me the Planets Summary

Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive by Ben Platts-Mills

What if you remembered things that never happened?
Or you forgot everything every few seconds?
Or one side of your body stopped working?

In Tell Me the Planets Ben Platts-Mills explores the fractured lives of survivors of brain injury, providing an extraordinary glimpse into their daily struggles to lead normal lives. With empathy and insight, he describes their efforts to understand what has happened to them, avoid homelessness, help others worse off than themselves and make risky, almost impossible medical decisions about their futures.

Essential and inspiring, Tell Me the Planets will take you on a journey to the frontiers of science and the limits of human resilience.

'An absorbing and moving account of what it is like to live with brain injury' Penelope Lively

'Extraordinary' Nature

'Heart-breaking and uplifting . . . a vivid and unforgettable portrait of modern Britain by an extraordinarily-gifted story-teller' Robert Newman, author of Neuropolis

Tell Me the Planets Reviews

Platts-Mills writes with truth and eloquence about his relationships with brain injury survivors, and gives us insight into what it is that makes us human, and how those relationships can help us heal * Julia Samuel *
Meticulous, thoughtful ... lyrical phrases are striking in their precision * TLS *
At turns heartbreaking and uplifting, this is not just a brilliant book about the survivors of brain injury, but also a vivid and unforgettable portrait of modern Britain by an extraordinarily-gifted story-teller. Ben Platts-Mills tells the stories of child-refugee Liah, ex-gangster Danny and computer geek Matthew - in hourly peril of having their sense of self annulled - with great vividness and imagination * Robert Newman, author of Neuropolis *
An absorbing and moving account of what it is like to live with brain injury. Ben Platts-Mills writes vividly * Penelope Lively *
Remarkable. Heartbreaking and uplifting * Foyles Newsletter *
In Ben Platts-Mills's extraordinary book, the characters of people damaged by violence, stroke or accident of birth outshine the medical details. He tells [their stories] wonderfully * nature.com *

About Ben Platts-Mills

Ben Platts-Mills lives in Hackney and has spent the last 14 years working for Headway East London, the charity that supports survivors of brain injury. In 2013 he led on the development of the life writing project, Who Are You Now? which publishes survivors' stories (www.whoareyounow.org).

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Sku

GOR009613131

ISBN 13

9780241976838

ISBN 10

0241976839

Title

Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive by Ben Platts-Mills

Author

Ben Platts-Mills

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

20190207

Number of pages

256

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Tell Me the Planets Ben Platts-Mills

Tell Me the Planets by Ben Platts-Mills

Tell Me the Planets Summary

Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive by Ben Platts-Mills

Tell Me the Planets Reviews

About Ben Platts-Mills

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