{"product_id":"recovery-house","title":"Recovery House","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I was deeply moved... each vignette feels like a small gift, told in a voice that will linger with me' \u003cb\u003eSOPHIE MACKINTOSH\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eThere are writers who both survive things and understand them. Brutal, precise, and somehow full of light.' \u003cb\u003eYRSA DALEY-WARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'I loved this beautiful book' \u003cb\u003eSARAH BERNSTEIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A compelling and deeply engaging read' \u003cb\u003eDANIEL LAWRENCE TAYLOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved it’ \u003cb\u003eKRYSTELLE BAMFORD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Recovery House\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterclass in storytelling. I was mesmerised from start to finish… I’ve never read anything like it and I don’t think I ever will. \u003ci\u003eThe Recovery House\u003c\/i\u003e is perfect' \u003cb\u003eORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A prescient novel, which captures very powerfully the surreal space and mundane routines of an institution. Owusu has drawn that desolate situation so poignantly' \u003cb\u003eSARA BAUME\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An impressively vulnerable novel - I read it in one sitting and immediately went back to page one to read it again' \u003cb\u003eVARAIDZO\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Derek Owusu is the real deal, and \u003ci\u003eThe Recovery House\u003c\/i\u003e is his best work yet' \u003cb\u003eKEIRAN GODDARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e Best Young British Novelist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJamal, a gifted and introspective young poet, wakes in a quiet, claustrophobic recovery house after a devastating mental breakdown, unsure how the bright edges of his life became so fractured. In this stark yet strangely tender sanctuary, with its watchful nurses, restless corridors and overlooked garden, he encounters several wounded, but radiant souls who are each wrestling with their own invisible storms. As Jamal navigates this suspended world, at once suffocating and strangely sacred, he begins to observe rather than retreat, finding in the rhythms of shared cigarettes, half-finished conversations and midnight confessions a hesitant, flickering sense of belonging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin these intimate, volatile walls, music drifts like prayer. A song sung into the dark becomes a fragile lifeline. Psalms are read aloud with trembling conviction. Laughter erupts, unexpected and defiant. Jamal’s searching, philosophical mind moves restlessly between memory and imagination, literature and scripture, doubt and devotion, interrogating the porous boundaries between illness and inspiration. What does it mean to hear a voice and call it God, or art, or madness? What is salvation in a place built to contain collapse? In the charged silence of the garden, under watchful skies, he begins to sense that joy can exist even here, braided through grief, carried on melody, sustained by human touch.\u003cbr\u003eTender, intelligent and spiritually inquisitive, The Recovery House is a novel about the music that survives inside us when language falters, about the redemptive possibilities of friendship, and about the delicate courage required to rebuild a self. As Jamal reckons with love, faith, shame and the perilous seduction of turning life into art, he is forced to confront the most difficult question of all: how to live honestly in the world without sacrificing the soul that makes him want to write it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56975839953240,"sku":"9781529963809","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529963809_fae97c72-61d3-4b94-9cc2-5e86387d917b.jpg?v=1780444824","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/recovery-house","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}