Some of Us Just Fall av Polly Atkin

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<p><b>''It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form''</b><br><b>Sally Huband, author of <i>Sea Bean</i></b><br><br><b>''Defiant and dazzling''</b><br><b>Freya Bromley, author of <i>The Tidal Year</i></b><br><br><b>''Essential reading''</b><br><b>Jessica J. Lee, author of <i>Turning</i></b><br><b><br><i>''Long before I knew I was sick, I knew I was breakable . . .''</i></b><br><br>After years of unexplained health problems, Polly Atkin''s perception of her body was rendered fluid and disjointed. When she was finally diagnosed with two chronic conditions in her thirties, she began to piece together what had been happening to her - all the misdiagnoses, the fractures, the dislocations, the bone-crushing exhaustion, the not being believed.<br><br><i>Some of Us Just Fall</i> combines memoir, pathography and nature writing to trace a fascinating journey through illness, a journey which led Polly to her current home in the Lake District,