{"product_id":"9781786580597","title":"Bear Woman : The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Ramqvist, Karolina \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutobiography: literary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27 April 2023 by Bonnier Books Ltd (Manilla Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 128 x 22 | 260g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood, marriage and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile struggling with the demands of family and career, the writer discovers a figure from history, Marguerite de la Rocque, a sixteenth-century noblewoman who was abandoned, pregnant, on a remote island in Nova Scotia. When she is finally rescued, her lover and her baby have died, but she has survived this inhospitable wilderness, alone, for two long years. It's a remarkable story of survival, but one that has been consigned to a footnote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelving deeper into Marguerite's hidden life, the writer begins to question her ability to tell this story, the story of any women in history - or even her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The deeply personal journey of a writer, surprising and illuminating, and for me, familiar in the most reassuring way as she loses herself in this compelling story' - Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55523140305271,"sku":"9781786580597","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781786580597.jpg?v=1753973769","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781786580597","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}