Bella Bathurst: Sound [2018] paperback CCON Mindfulness is the number-one tool

Mindfulness is the number-one tool for staying present and calm amidst the chaos

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Two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting chatting with her grandmother on a park bench in New York when a brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead and strikes her unconscious

weaving together extensive research in the form of personal stories and political reportage

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Bella Bathurst: Sound [2018] paperback CCON Mindfulness is the number-one tool'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ' For twelve years, Bella Bathurst was deaf. She missed the punchlines and the jokes, avoided busy restaurants and raucous parties, and grew her hair long to cover hearing aids. But then, twelve years later, pioneering surgery on her ears gave