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    "description": "Wendy\u2019s life can be neatly divided into two: before and after.\n\nBefore her husband\u2019s car accident, it was just the two of them. They never took the train at rush hour, and they avoided their noisy neighbour upstairs. Naveem devoted his spare time to vintage train models, and Wendy to re-reading the well-thumbed pages of her favourite books. It didn\u2019t matter what others thought about their small, quiet life together \u2013 they were happy.\n\nAfter the coma, Wendy barely recognises herself. When she\u2019s not holding the love of her life\u2019s hand, accompanied by the beep of the life-support machine, who is she? The nurse tells her to talk to Naveem \u2013 that he can still hear her \u2013 but she doesn\u2019t have a single thing to say.\n\nSuddenly Wendy can\u2019t bear the silence. She needs something, anything, to talk to Naveem about. Suddenly she\u2019s losing herself at fairgrounds packed with crowds and candyfloss, she\u2019s at the airport, waiting for the whoosh of the planes as they take off, making friends with the neighbour she has spent over a decade avoiding.\n\nKnowing that every breath her husband takes might be his last, Wendy has no choice but to try to carry on without him. Should she feel guilty about living while his life is on pause? And when \u2013 if \u2013 he wakes up, will he still love the woman she has become?\n\nThis poignant, moving and uplifting tale is for anyone who has taken life for granted, neglected to say \u2018I love you\u2019 to their loved ones, or forgotten to find happiness in the little things. Perfect for fans of Josie Silver, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Jojo Moyes.",
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