{"product_id":"field-notes-from-deaths-door","title":"Field Notes from Death's Door","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780733343612\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Is Going to Hurt \u003c\/em\u003emeets \u003cem\u003eEmergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)\u003c\/em\u003e - a rollicking, smart and self-aware memoir about the extremes of the human experience, the limits to compassion, and what trying to save the world actually entails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her early 30s, Katie Treble felt stuck - in her life, in her career as an emergency doctor, and in a dead-end relationship. Moving from her home in England to sunny Byron Bay hadn't been the answer she was hoping for. Wanting to kickstart her life and put her starry-eyed idealism into action, she signed up to work for Medecins sans Frontières. She thought it would be an adventure - a chance to find meaning, purpose and maybe do some good in a world gone mad with greed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie was dispatched to the war-torn Central African Republic, to a town called Bria: a remote blood diamond-mining town controlled by rebel militia, one of the poorest, most lawless, and violent places on earth and a grinding humanitarian crisis the world has largely ignored. Arriving to live in an ex-diamond traders' compound set against a backdrop of poverty, hunger, disease and gunfire, Katie was thrown in the deep end. Sweltering through long shifts in a hospital tent equipped with only the most basic resources, she fought to save an endless stream of patients while her heart broke again and again at how little a human life could be worth. Survival off-shift meant self-anaesthetising via the basic resources of bad local lager, camaraderie, card games and the odd ill-advised sexual liaison. Things were already hard enough, but when an army of rebel mercenaries descended on\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS PUB","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41508088184965,"sku":"PR404279","price":57.2,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNY2SE6UF9Y9.jpg?v=1769775393","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/field-notes-from-deaths-door","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}