{"product_id":"book-eqso","title":"Relatively Strange","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1950s London, England. A baby girl was born - that was me. \u003c\/strong\u003eMy parents had no inkling I was different, of course neither did I. It was a while before it dawned on me not everyone saw and heard as I did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy first proper memories\u003c\/strong\u003e are starting school, struggling to sift through what people thought, said, and actually meant - often 3 completely different things. And all that other stuff in people's heads, tunes, repetitive phrases, emotions and sensations - happy, sad, cold, hot, sore throat, hungry. Emotions are the things that seep out most, and they become tangled with those seeping out from others. Not surprising I got a lot of headaches. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne person is noisy,\u003c\/strong\u003e several make a dreadful din, and output from a crowd is mind-aching. I had to learn, and I did, taught myself to automatically tune out, barrier-build, and compensated by mimicking the reactions of others. The trickiest thing was knowing what I should be hearing and understanding as opposed to what I shouldn't. Seeking guidance often got me even deeper into hot water. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLuckily my family were on the paranoid side, \u003c\/strong\u003eand as they came to understand more about what I was and what I could do, paranoid proved politic. Taking everything into account I think we all managed rather well, and it wasn't really anybody's fault things took a turn for the dangerous, and then the life-threatening. You have to learn to take the rough with the smooth.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Love this series, a mix of genres beautifully written.\" \u003cem\u003eM A Comley, NYT \u0026amp; USA Today Bestseller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pitch perfect humour, beautiful sentences and a deadpan, matter of fact narration. A real, rare treat of a read.\" \u003cem\u003eS.E. Lynes, Amazon #1 Author\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As if a John Wyndham character strayed into a McDermid novel.\" \u003cem\u003ePromoting Crime Fiction \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Like Stephen King but funnier.\" \u003cem\u003eAmazon Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49425120854320,"sku":"BDeqso","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/eqso-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773342463","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-eqso","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}