In paperback -“SARAH'S
MIDNIGHT ANTHOLOGY"
Compiled by SARAH NOCK -
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DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN NOW BUY SARAH
NOCK'S PRIVATELY COLLECTED POEMS?
BOWING TO POPULAR DEMAND, AND AFTER OBTAINING ALL THE REQUISITE PERMISSIONS,
THIS VERY PERSONAL AND UPLIFTING ANTHOLOGY HAS JUST GONE PUBLIC AS A COMPANION
VOLUME TO "PONDERINGS"---- A BRILLIANT SELECTION FOR THE MIDNIGHT
HOURS.
SOME COMMENTS FROM THE AUTHOR'S POSTBAG
Your lovely book will be my midnight reading.
Rebekah Stott, York.
Your book is by my bedside
Dr R S Stanley, Horley.
I enjoyed Sarah's Midnight Anthology greatly and liked the way it is
built around mainstream poets, such as Tennyson and Browning. I was pleased to
see you had included two obscure poems by Dowson and Patmore, and also Lord
Wavell's 'Sonnet for the Madonna of the Cherries'. One of the joys of opening a
new poetry anthology is finding poems one does not know. The Robert Frost poems
were new to me, and I hadn't realised that Dorothy Parker wrote verse.
Russell Sparkes, author and editor of Sound of Heaven, an Anthology of Catholic
poetry.
A truly beautiful book - in content, print and binding, but most of all
in the personal choice of its content. The preface was very enlightening and
set the tone for the poems - some of which are my favourites also.
Sr Bonaventure, Mother Superior (retired) Copthorne Convent.
.......... for the first time in my life sleeplessness has arrived to
try its torments on me. But it finds me armed with your lovely book
..........
Laura Tilton, pregnant mother of an 18 month old son.
It's a thoroughly delightful and satisfying collection.
Revd, T E Holme, The Rectory, Penshurst.
The choice of poems is so touching - the old favourites bring back so
many memories of school days and the new ones (to me at least) will make me go
out and find out more about the authors.
June Barrington, Horsham.
IN PAPERBACK -“Ponderings
on Parkinson's - an inside view of Parkinson's disease
By SARAH NOCK - Read an
excerpt -
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"She describes with wit and verve the
many consequences of her illness as it has affected her over the past 20
years........the resilience of the human spirit is revealed..."
- Dr James LeFanu, SUNDAY
TELEGRAPH
"It's a great book...... A great read, an
interesting read, an inspiring read - and it's fun!"
- Gordon Astley, BBC
Southern Counties Radio
"I've endured it {PD} with help from many
sources, but few more useful than Sarah Nock's little book in which she
modestly, and from personal experience [she's suffered from the condition for
more than 20 years], provides a touching footnote to the
battle................this is a moving and useful guide."
- Leo Cooper, DAILY
MAIL
"Sarah Nock talks with revealing honesty about the
challenges of living with Parkinson's disease........ What is so inspiring
about Sarah, is how her sense of humour has helped her to face this cruel
illness, and how her ability to describe the way it affects her has enabled her
doctors to achieve a clearer understanding of the condition."
- Diane Kenwood, WOMAN'S WEEKLY
"If it's possible to suffer an incurable neurological
disease in style then Sarah has achieved it..... Her wit, style and sheer
ability to find the fun in things make her an inspiration to anyone........
Sarah's thoughts are helping others suffering from Parkinson's."
- YOURS
"Sarah Nock has succeeded in writing an entertaining,
thought-provoking, and educational book about what it is like to have
Parkinson's Disease. It has certainly provided me with a better insight into
how this condition can affect people, and with this additional knowledge I hope
to be better able to help, and understand, those of my patients who also have
Parkinson's Disease - to whom, and those around them, I'll be recommending her
book."
- Dr Rob Hicks GP, author, and
broadcaster
SOME COMMENTS FROM THE AUTHOR'S POSTBAG
I think your book is informative, encouraging, honest, sad, amusing and
heart warming. It should be read by all levels of the medical profession,
family carers, and, most importantly, newly diagnosed PD sufferers, as well as
those who have been long diagnosed and still trying to come to terms with this
puzzling disease.
Eileen Huggett, ex theatre-nurse whose husband has
Parkinson's.
It is such a positive and inspirational piece of work. I thoroughly enjoyed
reading it. I think all patients with PD and professionals caring for PD
should have the opportunity to read your work.
Cherry-Ann James, Parkinson's Nurse, The National Hospital for
Neurology.
As well as giving such a vivid impression of what it must be like to have
Parkinson's...I loved the way that it was full of literary references and
humour and style,
Clare Reddaway, journalist
I have read your “Ponderings” and it is really very good. I
think a patient and medics will get remarkable insight into the disease from
you.
Adriaan Grobbelaar, Consultant Surgeon
I thought it very informative, beautifully written and poignant. I shall
give it to my friends, particularly the Nursing Home staff. I am sure they
would appreciate an opportunity to read something so relevant to the people
they care for every day.
Olive Bowman, whose sister has Parkinson's.
Ponderings on Parkinson's Audiobook CD - Go
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Sarah Nock has had Parkinson’s disease for more than twenty years and
her readings on these CDs are taken from her book in which she gives us her own
unique take on this sometimes misunderstood condition that affects the lives of
millions of people whether as patients or carers.
Her eloquent testimony shows that for her life can still go on and it is
wonderful to hear the spirit and wit expressed in her own spoken words based on
her personal insight.
This is truly a story of Ponderings - by someone who has had this condition for
a long, long time.
Brian Hopper
As I listened I fast became engrossed and realised that, like so many, I knew
nothing much about this awful disease and yet was astonished how well Sarah Nock
enlightened me through her writing and especially her voice. Sarah has that ability
to communicate her situation both unselfconsciously and without a trace of self pity.
Graham Renwick
