{"product_id":"last-things-9781408879719","title":"Last Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Unexpectedly funny''\u003ci\u003e - New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Full of imagination,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e humour and invention ... A glorious debut\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'' - \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Mesmerising ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compression\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE EXQUISITE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eWEATHER\u003c\/i\u003e, SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo eight-year-old Grace Davitt, her mother, Anna, is a puzzling yet wonderful mystery. This is a woman who has seen a sea serpent in the lake, who paints a timeline of the universe on the sewing-room wall, and who teaches her daughter a secret language which only they can speak. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Grace''s father, however, the only truth is science, and increasingly he finds himself shut out by Anna as she draws Grace deeper and dee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffill creates for Grace a mesmerising imaginary world ... She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compression * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eEngaging, funny, full of imagination, humour and invention ... A glorious debut * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eOffill's remarkable first novel is crisply written, economically constructed and so inventive that you read without a clue as to what anyone will say or do next ... If \"last things\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003emeans things that will last, then this novel is one of them * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eThe unsentimental honesty means that the humour and the charm of the novel - both heavily in evidence - come exclusively from the writing * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExpress on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eThe charisma and damage of madness lend a desperate glamour to \u003ci\u003eLast Things \u003c\/i\u003e * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eELLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eA pleasure the read and a tender evocation of childhood ... Full of myth, historical anecdote, scientific fact, cosmology and philosophy ... A gem of a book * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly captures the confusion of childhood * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408020709719,"sku":"9781408879719","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408879719.jpg?v=1730501294","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/last-things-9781408879719","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}