{"product_id":"fighting-fate-by-justin-yerbury-9781922930347","title":"Fighting Fate","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJustin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease (MND) that he would do everything he could to find a cure. MND had already taken several members of Justin's family, and he learned that they carried a rare genetic form of the disease that gave them a fifty-fifty chance of inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDesperate to help his loved ones, Justin went to university to study science, eventually becoming a professor of molecular biology at the University of Wollongong and one of the world's leading experts on MND. While in New York, delivering a lecture on his groundbreaking research, Justin felt his thumb stop working—'the beast' that had lurked so long in the shadows had caught up with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow 99 per cent paralysed and able to move only his eyeballs, Justin refuses to yield. With eye-tracking software, he has written his extraordinary memoir, \u003cem\u003eFighting Fate\u003c\/em\u003e, to shine light on this terrible disease and to show that, even in the bleakest of moments, there is always a reason to keep fighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll proceeds from this book will be donated to Fight MND.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46843567177964,"sku":"9781922930347","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17714593482872.jpg?v=1758804027","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fighting-fate-by-justin-yerbury-9781922930347","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}