{"product_id":"enough-9780571362899","title":"Enough","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''Stephen Hough''s memoir had me gripped from the beginning . . . riveting and revelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want to know  this is the rare sort that left me urgently demanding a second volume, a third, a fourth. I loved it.' \u003ci\u003ePhilip Pullman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world''s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis memoir recounts his unconventional coming-of-age story, from his beginnings in an unmusical home in Cheshireto the main stage of Carnegie Hall in New York aged 21. We read of his early love-affair with the piano which curdled, after a teenage nervous breakdown, into failure at school and six-hours a day watching television, engulfed in dreams, seesawing between sexual and religious obsessions.We meet his supportive, if eccentric parents - his artistically frustrated father, his housework-hating mother. We read of the teachers who encouraged and inspired, and others who hit him on the head sc\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48066847080791,"sku":"9780571362899","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571362899.jpg?v=1713211875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/enough-9780571362899","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}