Synopsis "Slender Threads: a young person's guide to Parkinson's Disease"
In January 2008, Pete Langman was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's disease. Slender Threads is an intensely personal investigation of how it affects his past, his present and his future. It is not a book for the faint-hearted, nor one for the Oprah generation, but for those who aren't afraid to look past the platitudes and get to the heart of this disease. Thirty percent of the writer's royalties of Slender Threads goes directly to Parkinson's charities in the UK. on Slender Threads: 'This is, by a significant margin, the best book on Parkinson's I have ever read. Absolutely stark, brutally and uncomfortably honest. It is far from consoling, but is a tersely argued description of the human spirit under fire.' Dr Jon Stamford, neuroscientist and PWP 'Far more than the record of one young man's journey into illness, Slender Threads raises, and attempts to answer, questions about who we are, how we know ourselves, and how far we can control our destiny. Langman chronicles his deterioration with savage honesty, refusing to sanitise the exquisite torture of knowing the horrors that lie ahead, but not when, or in what order, they will come. 'Slender Threads' is a painful read, but a valuable one - not just for anyone facing a diagnosis of early-onset PD, or who knows somebody in that predicament, but for everyone.' Eleanor Updale, author 'Unsettling, disturbing, brilliant and bloody-minded - Pete rages against the dying of the light in these pages and delivers dispatches from the dark side with a brilliant lucidity. Truly inspirational - like nothing I have ever read before.' Gary Lucas, Grammy-nominated rock legend
