{"product_id":"9781925475524-secondhand-the-green-bell","title":"The Green Bell","description":"'A nurse stands to the side of a rectangular black box with dials and cords: the machine they use for electroconvulsive therapy. As I watch a doctor adjust the knobs, I realise you don't die once only.'  Paula Keogh It's 1972 in Canberra. Michael Dransfield is being treated for a drug addiction; Paula Keogh is delusional and grief-stricken. They meet in a psychiatric unit of the Canberra Hospital and instantly fall in love. Paula recovers a self that she thought was lost; Michael, a radical poet, is caught up in a rush of creative energy and writes poems that become The Second Month of Spring. Together, they plan for 'a wedding, marriage, kids - the whole trip'. But outside the hospital walls, madness, grief and drugs challenge their luminous dream. Can their love survive? THE GREEN BELL is a lyrical and profoundly moving story about love and madness. It explores the ways that extreme experience can change us: expose our terrors and open us to ecstasy for the sake of a truer life, a reconciliation with who we are. Ultimately, the memoir reveals itself to be a hymn to life. A requiem for lost friends. A coming of age story that takes a lifetime.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48939067637979,"sku":"9781925475524-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/53efa139-dbb7-4d04-a13a-d7a00f4e96e4.jpg?v=1783139356","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781925475524-secondhand-the-green-bell","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}