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Sanatorium
Sanatorium | Abi Palmer
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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 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor (…more)
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Soft pick.

Written by someone I knew, this is a mix of prose and poetry about her time in a sanatorium in Budapest, and back at home in London afterwards. Told in a non-linear way, jumping between the two and interspersed with vivid dreams. Abi is chronically ill and disabled.

I liked the poetry but found the prose a little like a diary. Some chapters starting with “Hi, it‘s me Abi” which was off putting.

Hard to rate. 🤷🏻‍♀️