{"product_id":"9781925712537-secondhand-the-green-bell","title":"The Green Bell","description":"In 1972 Paula Keogh becomes a patient in M Ward, the psychiatric ward of a Canberra hospital. While there, she meets the poet Michael Dransfield. They fall wholly and boldly and ecstatically in love. Paula discovers a self she thought she had lost, while Michael is inspired to write the poems that become The Second Month of Spring. Together they plan for 'a wedding, marriage, kids - the whole trip'. But M Ward is a liminal, purgatorial place - a twilight realm where patients endure the existential pain that is mental illness. Madness and grief challenge Paula and Michael's luminous dream. Can their love survive? THE GREEN BELL  is a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir about love and madness. 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":50625222279387,"sku":"9781925712537-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6e5b366a-b963-4738-94c6-c7c172a5bb1b.jpg?v=1791891847","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781925712537-secondhand-the-green-bell","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}