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Robert McMullen (Author)
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November 15, 2005

The true story of an unlikely encounter in the extraordinary life of a young man diagnosed with ME.

When Rob receives an email from an unknown woman, complimenting him on an internet book review, it leads to an unlikely exchange between two distant strangers. Rob is chronically unwell with a mysterious illness, while Rose lives on the other side of the country. But who is she? What does she want? And where is their friendship heading?

Through a series of annotated emails, poems, paradoxes, quizzes and quotations, Rob narrates the true story of how their lives came together in a way that is funny, touching and completely unforgettable.

When this book was first published the author did not want to reveal his diagnosis. He has now written an afterword for the ebook edition in which he writes candidly about his diagnosis of ME for the first time.

Please search for ASIN B006YFW7RY in the Kindle stores to find the ebook edition.

At least 30% of the purchase price of ebooks bought from Amazon stores will be donated to charities funding biomedical ME research. ME is also known as ME/CFS and CFIDS.

"Robert McMullen has put his finger on what it's like to be chronically ill and housebound with a misunderstood illness… I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it as a sensitive and absorbing portrayal of a sojourn." Dr Neil C. Abbot, Operations Director, ME Research UK.

"This is a great story... I am sersiouly impressed and don't have one single negative thing to say."Lisa Jewell, The Sunday Times bestselling author.


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Product Details

  • Paperback: 198 pages
  • Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (November 15, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1419615815
  • ISBN-13: 978-1419615818
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,041,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars 21st Century Relationship, April 8, 2006
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This review is from: stranger and stranger (Paperback)
Have you ever met a person online? You were guarded at first, right? You thought, "Who is this person?" They could be a nutcase, or a pervert. But after a while did you start to think of them as a friend? Did things get weird? Did you start to think of them sexually?

This is a novel about exactly that kind of relationship. The author, Robert McMullen, who has some kind of mysterious illness that renders him homebound, saved all of the emails he exchanged with a woman, Rose, he met online and the majority of this book are those emails. However, they are interspersed with his own thoughts. At first these are mostly light-hearted but as the book goes on McMullen begins to share a bit of the pain he is going through do to his illness and the outlook on life it's given him.

I went back and forth, sometimes I thought Rose was insane, sometimes I thought she was normal and McMullen himself was not to be trusted.

One thing is for sure this novel was an engrossing read. [...]
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Compelling Read...,, March 18, 2006
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Reviewer: E. Randall from Nr Haywards heath, West Sussex United Kingdom
I started reading this book in the middle, just to have a quick dip, (I know it's a bad habit of mine, along with reading the last page first) Before I realised it, I had read to the end. So then I started at the beginning and read all the way through.
This is a warm and witty account of an online relationship, all the more attractive as it gives you the slightly guilty feeling you get when you accidentally see a screen with another person's email up...and have read it before you can stop yourself. There is no polite word that I know of for this "nosiness." It can't be eavesdropping if you can't hear anything, it's not voyeurism as you can't see anything...but it fulfils the human condition that we all have to know more about what is going on around us, behind closed doors etc.
I think it's a basic survival skill, well that's my excuse anyway.
All authors feel vulnerable when they publish, but Robert McMullen has been braver than most in exposing his unadulterated emails to the world, revealing by turn his secret hopes, desires and fears, coupled with a dry sense of humour. I now have a crushing need to know what happened next to rose seventeen...
and... oh yes, I loved his hilarious description of the horrific contents of Wynema and her deep freeze...
A highly recommended read!
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