{"product_id":"mary-and-mr-eliot-9780571337330","title":"Mary and Mr Eliot","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rediscovered story of unrequited love which reveals an intimate new portrait of the poet T. S. Eliot  and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeartbreaking and wonderfully told.' \u003c\/b\u003eSusan Hill, Spectator Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompelling ... compulsive.'\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Drabble, New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1938 T.S. Eliot struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan, a passionately curious woman and intrepid traveller. Their relationship was cosy and domestic  characterised by churchgoing, record-playing, day trips with Mary at the wheel or Eliot in his rolled shirt-sleeves cooking up sausages for dinner. Over the years, Mary came to believe that their friendship might lead to something more . . . but their journey together did not end as she would have hoped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrevelyan left a unique document  of diaries, letters and pictures  charting their twenty-year-long relationship in her vivid prose. Erica Wagner has brought this untold stor\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403116421463,"sku":"9780571337330","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571337330.jpg?v=1730482462","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mary-and-mr-eliot-9780571337330","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}