{"product_id":"in-love-by-amy-bloom-9781783788019","title":"In Love","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, \u003cem\u003eIn Love\u003c\/em\u003e reaffirms the power and value of human relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the last year of his life Amy had struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to not submerge 'into the darkness of an expiring existence'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with piercing insight and wit, \u003cem\u003eIn Love\u003c\/em\u003e is Bloom's intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer's, and then on becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Poignant, kind, funny and ultimately redemptive'\u003c\/em\u003e - Alain de Botton, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Course of Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'In Love is a thrillingly beautiful, laser-eyed book about love, life, mortality and, most remarkably, about the ways in which no one of the three can be separated from the others'\u003c\/em\u003e - Michael Cunningham, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Home at the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46521228656876,"sku":"9781783788019","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2495023482823.jpg?v=1749006163","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/in-love-by-amy-bloom-9781783788019","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}