{"product_id":"soar-1","title":"SOAR","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #5e6e82; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size:=\"\"\u003eAt three years old, Carl Morris contracted bacterial meningitis. He fell into a five-day coma — and woke up profoundly deaf. He stopped speaking altogether, convinced it was pointless. A 1983 educational report predicted he would never read well or hold down a skilled job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #5e6e82; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size:=\"\"\u003eHe proved it wrong in every way imaginable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #5e6e82; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size:=\"\"\u003eSOAR – Learning to Fly with a Broken Wing is the story of how a boy who lost his hearing and his voice found both again — through painstaking years of speech therapy, a mother who refused to give up, and a father who put a cue in his hands. It is the story of 'Houdini' Morris: the cocky kid who turned professional at seventeen, survived a terrifying night being forced to play pool for his life in a Johannesburg pool hall, and at twenty-one became the youngest-ever World 8-Ball Pool Champion — all while lip-reading his way through a world that rarely waited for him to catch up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #5e6e82; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size:=\"\"\u003eBut this is more than a sports memoir. It is the story of a man who walked away from professional pool at the height of his powers to be a father, built a property business from nothing, and then — driven by something deeper than ambition — became the first deaf person to trek the last degree to the North Pole. Who has cycled the Namib Desert, trekked the Andes, and faced down High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema at Everest Base Camp. Who has raised over £1 million for deaf children and other causes close to his heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: #5e6e82; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol font-size:=\"\"\u003eWritten with raw honesty, self-deprecating humour, and hard-won wisdom, SOAR is a book about silence and noise, fear and acceptance, grief and gratitude — and the simple, stubborn belief that a life interrupted is not a life ended. For anyone who has ever been told what they can't do, this is proof of what's possible when you refuse to listen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carl Morris","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":67405753680176,"sku":"9781066737710","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/soar-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}