{"product_id":"brookfield-christopher-crown-vent-9781806051588","title":"CROWN \u0026 VENT","description":"CROWN \u0026amp; VENT\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBy Christopher Brookfield\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen a routine chest pain becomes a dash of blues-and-twos, Christopher Brookfield is swept into open-heart surgery to replace a failing bicuspid valve. The operation saves him, then a lung infection and tracheostomy tip recovery into the strange weather of ICU delirium. Ceiling vents seem to bloom; a nurse's steady presence anchors him even as his mind drafts a map of bells, spores, and an old crest: a crown twined with roses. Is this a royal myth surfacing through morphine, or the brain's last, brilliant strategy for staying alive?\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTold with NHS grit and lyrical clarity, CROWN \u0026amp; VENT moves between fluorescent wards and shadowed undercrofts, between the click of a new mechanical valve and a childhood memory of a schoolroom-pure bell. As Christopher learns to breathe again, first with machines, then by choice - the boundaries between science and story refuse to sit still. A painting that shouldn't exist, a symbol that keeps returning, and a sequence of sounds that might be instructions: each could be proof of something cosmic... or a carefully built fiction that carried him through the dark.Based on a true account, this is a love story, of a family that won't step back, of nurses who make courage practical, and of a body negotiating its way home. For readers of When Breath Becomes Air and the tender strangeness of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, CROWN \u0026amp; VENT is a haunting, humane novel about survival, meaning, and the thin seam where medicine meets myth.","brand":"C B Brookfield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53763567944022,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/brookfield-christopher-crown-vent-9781806051588","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}