{"product_id":"w-3-bette-howland-9781529035957","title":"W-3","description":"‘Dazzlingly and daringly written’ Rachel Cooke, Observer\nW-3 is a small psychiatric ward in a large university hospital, a world of pills and passes dispensed by an all-powerful staff, a world of veteran patients with grab-bags of tricks, a world of dishevelled, moment-to-moment existence on the edge of permanence.\nBette Howland was one of those patients. In 1968, Howland was thirty-one, a single mother of two young sons, struggling to support her family on the part-time salary of a librarian; and labouring day and night at her typewriter to be a writer. One afternoon, while staying at her friend Saul Bellow’s apartment, she swallowed a bottle of pills.\nW-3 is a vivid – and often surprisingly funny – portrait of the extraordinary community of Ward 3 and a record of a defining moment in a writer’s life. The book itself would be her salvation: she wrote herself out of the grave.\nOriginally published in 1974 and rediscovered forty years later, this is the first edition of W-3 to be published in the UK. With an original introduction by Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End.\n‘W-3 is one hell of a debut’ Lucy Scholes, Paris Review\n‘Howland is finally getting the recognition that she deserves’ Sarah Hughes, iNews","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51399285080352,"sku":"9781529035957","price":8.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781529035957.jpg?v=1774948757","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/w-3-bette-howland-9781529035957","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}