Sanatorium

A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 pound inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart.Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces - bathtub to thermal pool, land to water, day to night - interlacing memoir, poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising, mercurial debut.'There is a dreamlike quality to Abi Palmer's exquisite Sanatorium. In lucid, gorgeous prose, she tells the story of a body, of illness and of navigating the complicated wellness industry, but ultimately this is a book about what it means to be alive. A striking, experimental debut that will stay with me.' Sinead GleesonShortlisted for The Barbellion Prize 2020

Product details

• Authors: Abi Palmer
• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2020
• EAN: 9781908058713
• ISBN: 978-1-908058-71-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 12 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries