{"product_id":"lie-someone-told-you-about-yourself-2","title":"Lie Someone Told You About Yourself","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eA Lie Someone Told You About Yourself is a novel by Peter Ho Davies that explores the complex consequences of having a child and the decision not to have a child. It chronicles the flux of parenthood, marriage, and the day-to-day practice of loving someone, and is an unprecedented depiction of fatherhood. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 02 September 2021\u003cbr\u003e\n                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e\n                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies' achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labor? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become fiction?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political, experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the decision not to have a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman's first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain, leaving her and her husband, a writer, reeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests - and questions that reverberate down the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis spare, supple narrative chronicles the flux of parenthood, marriage, and the day-to-day practice of loving someone. As challenging as it is vulnerable, as furious as it is tender, as touching as it is darkly comic, Peter Ho Davies' new novel is an unprecedented depiction of fatherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 142g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 129 x 197 x 17 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780340980293\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Ho Davies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44097738506490,"sku":"9780340980293","price":6.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/ca1362c70ee05eec0f762c68abe68c50_4373626c-fb3c-4d4f-b96c-46a8f6072cb8.jpg?v=1632105658","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/lie-someone-told-you-about-yourself-2","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}