{"product_id":"thirty-days","title":"Thirty Days","description":"From the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fiftieth Gate\u003c\/i\u003e, Mark Raphael Baker's new book \u003ci\u003eThirty Days\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on life, death, love and marriage, written with an honesty that bares the souls of two people who shared their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThirty Days\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of grief, of a marriage and of a family. It is the moving memoir of Mark's wife of 32 years, Kerryn Baker, who died ten months after her diagnosis, aged 55, from stomach cancer.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is also a study in how we construct our own version of the past, after Mark discovers a cache of Kerryn's letters in the laundry cupboard and has to rethink their relationship. It is a book about memory and its uncertainties, as Mark sifts through photos and home movies, as his wife gets sicker, and his search for clues about their relationship grows more desperate.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her last days, Kerryn reveals her traumatic childhood to Mark for the first time. She emerges as the rock of the family, a brave and wise woman, clear-eyed about her treatment, focused on finding the path to a peaceful death. Paradoxically, her dying brings the couple back to the intensity of their first love.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of Paul Kalanithi's \u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air\u003c\/i\u003e and Cory Taylor's remarkable memoir, \u003ci\u003eDying,\u003c\/i\u003e Mark Baker's \u003ci\u003eThirty Days\u003c\/i\u003e is an inspirational book about death and dying.","brand":"Mark Raphael Baker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516776153149,"sku":null,"price":31.34,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925498653.jpg?v=1787572787","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/thirty-days","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}