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Arthur, a great reader and denier of reality, finds an ally in town bookseller Marina Phillips, who sets him on a path that eventually takes him to university and away. Ernie, a gifted mathematician and animal lover, is not so lucky. As he and Arthur age out of the abuse, Ernie notices younger and equally vulnerable boys being recruited. When he tries to blow the whistle, nobody believes him. At 16, he disappears, a loss that almost destroys his best friend but also confirms for Arthur that he was smart to stay silent. Arthur eventually also turns his back on the mystery of Ernie's disappearance, but his bookselling mentor and friend Marina Phillips finds a way to follow Ernie where rage and betrayal has led him - into the darkest corners of the dark web - a search that ultimately helps Arthur reckon with what happened to them both. 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With their full cooperation, she brings us their stories, challenging the ways we think about people with mental illness on every page.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49892466524433,"sku":"CIN0735276501G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50834450055441,"sku":"CIN0735276501VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53064759083281,"sku":"GOR011707450","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0735276501.jpg?v=1751199849"},{"product_id":"ghost-garden-book-susan-doherty-9780735276529","title":"The Ghost Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A compelling act of connection, leavened with humour, clear-eyed yet packed with hope.\" -Ann-Marie MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see- the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society, feared, shunted from locked wards to rooming houses to the streets to jail and back again. 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Susan found that if she can hang in through the first 10-15 minutes of every coffee date with someone in the grip of psychosis, true communication results. Their \"madness\" is not otherworldly- instead it tells us something about how they're surviving their lives and what they've been through. \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Garden\u003c\/i\u003e carries a cargo of compassion and empathy that motivates us to re-examine our understanding of justice, society and humanity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50255953264913,"sku":"CIN0735276528G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51430368575761,"sku":"GOR014272947","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51882046587153,"sku":"GOR014443016","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52549338988817,"sku":"CIN0735276528VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0735276528.jpg?v=1751010265"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-susan-doherty.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}