{"product_id":"9781529154894","title":"The Given World - SIGNED EDITION","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSIGNED EDITION\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Melissa Harrison\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Fiction: special features\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e May 2026 by Cornerstone (Hutchinson Heinemann) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 272 pages \u003cbr\u003e222mm x 138mm | 400g\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Wonderful ... an Under Milk Wood for the twenty-first century' AMY LIPTROT'Reminds us with every luminous sentence about the fragile grace of ordinary lives' EVIE WYLD'Extraordinary ... The best serious fiction I've read this year' FRANCIS SPUFFORD'Attuned, loving and thoughtful ... I loved its warmth and intricacy' SARAH MOSS'Nobody does nature better than Melissa Harrison' TRISTAN GOOLEYA FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman falls while out walking and hopes to be found before nightfall; a doctor realises, too late, that he has long underestimated his wife; across the village, people are plagued by the same vast and unsettling dream. And alone in a converted priory, overlooking watermeadows unchanged for centuries, Clare Grey receives news which will force her to reconsider her family’s past and the fresh weight of her solitary existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56932387225975,"sku":"9781529154894","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781529154894.jpg?v=1774449008","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781529154894","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}