{"title":"Caro Llewellyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaro Llewellyn\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts stories that blend intimate memoir with the evocative depths of general fiction. Her writing invites readers into reflections on identity, memory, and the complexities of human relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a lyrical style and a compassionate eye, her works like \u003cem\u003eDiving into Glass\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLove Unedited\u003c\/em\u003e explore themes of family, resilience, and self-discovery, offering poignant narratives that linger long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"diving-into-glass-by-caro-llewellyn-9780143793786","title":"Diving into Glass","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA world shattered - a life remade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaro Llewellyn was living her dream life in her adopted home of New York, directing an international literary festival. Then one day, running in Central Park, she lost all sensation in her legs. Two days later she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaro was no stranger to tragedy. Her father Richard contracted polio at the age of twenty and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Dignified, undaunted and ingenious, he was determined to make every day count, not least seducing his nurse while still confined to an iron lung, then marrying her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when Caro was herself blindsided by illness, cut loose from everything she depended on, she couldn't summon any of the grace and courage she'd witnessed growing up. She was furious, toxic, humiliated. Only by looking back at her father's extraordinary example was she able to rediscover her own grit and find a way forward, rebuilding her life shard by shard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn emotionally brutal memoir of family, vulnerability and purpose, \u003ci\u003eDiving into Glass\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing, often funny portrait of the realities of disability and an intimate account of two lives filled with vigour and audacity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Caro Llewellyn's portrait of her father is a tour de force. It is entirely unpredictable and consistently exhilarating. I read it in one transfixed sitting.' – Janet Malcolm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Disturbing, compelling, portentous, obsessive, repetitious, persistent, prophetic, packed with shocks of recognition.' – Annie Proulx\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Indefatigable and unsinkable, Llewellyn keeps her story on pace as if her very life, and her father's legacy, depended on it. 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