{"product_id":"50-you-are-not-alone-a-timetable-through-the-quiet-country-sometimes-one-sentence-changes-a-life-sometimes-that-sentence-is-in-a-book-9798195302207","title":"50+ *You Are Not Alone* - A Timetable Through the Quiet Country: Sometimes one sentence changes a life. Sometimes that sentence is in a book.","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Art Adoro\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Life Stages - Mid-Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou Are Not Alone - A Timetable Through the Quiet Country \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSometimes one sentence changes a life. Sometimes that sentence is in a book.\u003cbr\u003eIf you are reading this, something has brought you here. Perhaps a friend who quietly handed you the book. Perhaps a search at three in the morning for words that match what you cannot quite name. Perhaps a Sunday afternoon on which the silence in your kitchen was a little too loud.\u003cbr\u003eWhatever brought you here - you are not the only one.\u003cbr\u003eYou Are Not Alone gathers 33 true-to-life stories of people who, at some point in their lives, ran aground. A retirement that emptied the days. A diagnosis that arrived in a white envelope. A spouse who left, or one who stayed but had stopped seeing. A career that consumed a body. A child who moved away. A mother who no longer recognised her daughter. An exhaustion that no holiday could touch.\u003cbr\u003eThese are not heroes. They are Heinrich, who sat at his kitchen table for four weeks after retirement until a former colleague said four words that changed everything. They are Marlies, the Tyrolean widow who could no longer lift the big pot. They are Heike, the single mother who functioned for three years until a pharmacist asked one ordinary question. They are Stefan, who survived a heart attack at fifty and learned, from a builder in the next hospital bed, that you don't have to do anything anymore now. They are Hubert, the eighty-one-year-old farmer who learned what a tablet was so that his three-year-old great-granddaughter could say hello through a screen.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is not a self-help manual. It is something braver: a timetable.\u003cbr\u003eA timetable is a list of journeys others have made. You read it not to be told where to go, but to find a route that fits your own life. Some of these stories will pass through you. Others will stop you on the page. One of them, somewhere in these 33 chapters, will be close enough to your own that you will set the book down and breathe differently. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho this book is for: \u003cbr\u003eAnyone in a life-transition that has narrowed without warning - retirement, widowhood, divorce, redundancy, illness, the empty nest\u003cbr\u003eFamily caregivers carrying weights no one else sees\u003cbr\u003eAdults whose loneliness is hidden behind functioning\u003cbr\u003eAnyone who has been told you should be over this by now and is not\u003cbr\u003eReaders who distrust seven-step programmes and prefer real stories with real outcomes\u003cbr\u003eAnyone in their forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, or beyond who senses that the switches in their life need to be reset \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat you will find inside: \u003cbr\u003e33 complete stories, each structured the same way: backstory, present situation, the way forward, the help of others, a compass moment, a question to sit with, and a closing list of what helped me\u003cbr\u003eFour parts moving from recognition (Driftwood) through first action (The First Step), through course-correction (Course Correction), into community (Stronger Together)\u003cbr\u003eAn appendix of typical mistakes by life-phase, from the thirties to the eighties\u003cbr\u003eA list of helpful addresses across the German-speaking region, with a note for international readers\u003cbr\u003eA glossary of seven recurring terms - timetable, compass moment, beach, itinerary, the Quiet Country, switch, travel companion \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou can open this book anywhere. You can read one story and put it down. You can give it to someone you cannot quite reach with your own words. You can underline a single sentence and forget the rest.\u003cbr\u003eThe book asks one thing of you: that at some point, four words come to feel true.\u003cbr\u003eYou are not alone.\u003cbr\u003eNot every day. Not every hour. Just once.\u003cbr\u003eThat is enough for the beginning.\u003cbr\u003eThe train travels on. So do you.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882897817751,"sku":"9798195302207","price":2122.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195302207.webp?v=1781097874","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/50-you-are-not-alone-a-timetable-through-the-quiet-country-sometimes-one-sentence-changes-a-life-sometimes-that-sentence-is-in-a-book-9798195302207","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}