{"product_id":"the-walking-stick-9781447254553","title":"The Walking Stick","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis outstanding novel is the story of a girl of 26 who has been crippled in her childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story tells how Deborah Dainton, convinced of her physical lack of attractiveness for men, becomes gradually persuaded of the reality of one man''s love for her; it tells how, warmed by this love, she blossoms into the full self-abnegation of a woman in love - and so moves into a life that leads by small but sinister steps into a full co-operation in a precisely executed and dangerous enterprise - described as it occurs minute by minute in masterly detail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs in his earlier books, Winston Graham writes here of a crisis in the lives of people for whom character governs destiny. His people, conceived in the round with backgrounds that make them as they are, act out a high drama with all its consequences, material and moral.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book which will tempt the reader to speed on to discover the fate of these people - yet no one will want to miss the texture and the turns of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the incomparable Winston Graham . . . who has everything that anyone else has, then a whole lot more * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThe strength of Graham's writing lay in its tremendous narrative power. * Telegraph *","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769775751511,"sku":"9781447254553","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447254553.jpg?v=1758722565","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-walking-stick-9781447254553","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}