{"product_id":"book-glnc","title":"Train Lord","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrought to you by Penguin. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when a writer can no longer write? What happens when pain is so intense that you question who you are and whether you can bare it any longer?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOliver Mol was a successful, clever, healthy twenty-five-year old. Then one day the migraine started.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor ten months, the pain was constant, exacerbated by writing, reading, using computers, looking at phones or anything with a screen. Slowly he became a writer who no longer wrote, and a person who could no longer could communicate with the modern world. In literature, and life, Oliver began to disappear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis doctors can't figure out how to fix him. He suffers a breakdown. One evening, high on pain killers, Oliver Googles the only thing he can think of: 'full-time job, no experience, Sydney'. An ad for a train guard appears and, desperate, Oliver takes it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor two years Oliver will watch others live their lives, observing the minutia and intimacy of strangers brought together briefly and connected by the steady march of time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExquisitely written and bravely told, \u003ci\u003eTrain Lord\u003c\/i\u003e is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your sense of self is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© Oliver Mol 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49362405916976,"sku":"BDglnc","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/61310-glnc-Square.jpg?v=1734509443","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-glnc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}