{"product_id":"silent-victims-part-2-paperback","title":"Silent Victims: Part 2 (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e458 pages | 5” × 8” | Standard Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThalidomide changed Leslie Millar’s life before he had even taken his first breath. But its consequences did not end with him. They rippled through an entire family for more than sixty years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this powerful sequel to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSilent Victims: Part 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which revealed the devastating impact of Thalidomide on his mother, Margaret, Alderman Gary Millar MBE turns to the wider story of a family forced to live in the long shadow of one of the greatest medical tragedies of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt its heart is Leslie Millar — a Thalidomide survivor who spent his life navigating a world too often unwilling to understand, accept or include him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough family photographs, personal memories, previously untold stories and painstaking research, Gary reconstructs Leslie’s remarkable life while uncovering a much bigger story: what happens to a family when the consequences of a medical disaster do not disappear, but pass silently from one decade to the next?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is not simply Leslie’s story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is the story of parents carrying guilt and grief. Of brothers and sisters growing up alongside trauma. Of discrimination, lost opportunities and battles for dignity. But it is also a story filled with humour, determination, love and extraordinary resilience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSilent Victims: Part 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e exposes the hidden human cost of Thalidomide — a cost measured not only in physical disability, but in the emotional scars carried by entire families.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRaw, intimate and ultimately hopeful, this book gives a voice to those whose suffering was rarely recorded, whose stories were too easily overlooked, and whose lives deserve to be remembered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey were the silent victims. This is their story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"We Love These","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58913849409696,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0344\/0086\/2267\/files\/Silent_Victims_Part_Two_-_Front_Cover_Overseas.png?v=1789442123","url":"https:\/\/omgwelovethese.com\/products\/silent-victims-part-2-paperback","provider":"We Love These","version":"1.0","type":"link"}