{"product_id":"nhoj-a-memoir-that-started-backwards","title":"NHOJ: A Memoir That Started Backwards","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a\njournalist and author, John Lazenby has spent more than forty years chronicling\nthe tales of others. But for much of his life he closely guarded his own\ncompelling story - a long and challenging struggle with childhood dyslexia,\nunable to read or write at a time when neurodiversity was rarely considered or\nrecognised. Sent away to boarding school at the age of seven, John's future pivoted\non the life-changing intervention of a teacher who finally understood the boy\nwhom no one else could teach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this warm\nand poignant memoir, John traces his misadventures through the unforgiving education\nsystem of the 1960s, when illiteracy was viewed as a character defect that\ncould be rectified by stern discipline and regular beatings, and takes us on an\nevocative visit to the not-so-distant past, introducing the kind and eccentric\nfamily who never gave up on him - and the array of teachers who did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe follow the\nintrepid progress of a boy who could write only one word - his name, spelled\nbackwards - to a man who finally found his true calling after a series of\nsetbacks and false starts, only to make the late discovery that he had\ntravelled through life unaware of a second neurodiversity, hiding in plain sight.\nHeart-warming, hilarious, raw and shocking, \u003ci\u003eNHOJ \u003c\/i\u003eis a tribute to\novercoming challenges, ignoring barriers and holding on to hope in a world that\ninitially seems to have no place for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback | 336 pages | Published February 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biteback Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63956794507613,"sku":"9781785908095","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781785908095.jpg?v=1774263754","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/nhoj-a-memoir-that-started-backwards","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}