{"product_id":"letters-home-9781905583751","title":"Letters Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen an out-of-work actor discovers his bedsit once belonged to an obscure, suicidal painter, he turns his talents to re-creating the ultimate site-specific performance…  As a teenage girl drifts from depression into a permanent state of sleep, she becomes the focus of both scientific interest and an unexpected, cult following...  Against a backdrop of hooliganism and hostility, an asylum seeker writes letters home assuring his family how welcoming England is...  Many of the characters in Martyn Bedford’s stories find themselves at a point of redefinition, trading in their old identity for something new. Whether it is an act of retreat or escape – fantasising about storming out of a thankless job, or just avoiding a bad-tempered husband for a few moments on Christmas day – they each understand the first step in changing a reality, is to reconstruct it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Haunting and intimate portraits of vividly different lives that get under your skin and stay there.' --Jeremy Dyson; 'Letters Home further establishes Martyn Bedford as a stand-out writer of highly memorable fiction.’ - Jacob Ross; 'A splendidly moving and varied collection.' - Jane Rogers","brand":"Comma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742798283095,"sku":"9781905583751","price":11.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781905583751.jpg?v=1758386606","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/letters-home-9781905583751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}