{"product_id":"will-this-house-last-forever-heartbreaking-beautifully-written-the-times-9781472274489","title":"Will This House Last Forever?: 'Heartbreaking, beautifully written' The Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eWill This House Last Forever? is a heartfelt and original memoir about the pain of having to come to terms with a parent's mortality, the way grief defies logic, and learning to see the flaws in those we love and let them go. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 07 April 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Headline Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvening Standard Books of the Summer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoignant, written with intelligence and tears, Ben Okri's Nuanced, absorbing, and moving; extraordinary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObserver. Raw, poetic, beautifully formed. Daisy Johnson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Xanthi Barker's father died when she was in her mid-twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer father, poet Sebastian Barker, had left Xanthi, her mother, and her brother to pursue writing and a new relationship when Xanthi was a baby.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up, she had always struggled to reconcile his extravagant affection - a rocking horse crafted from scavenged wood, the endless stream of poems, drawings, and letters, conversations that spiralled from the structure of starlight to philosophy to Bruce Springsteen - with the fact that he could not be depended upon for more everyday things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough theirs was a relationship defined by departures, he always returned, so why should this farewell be any different, or more final?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWILL THIS HOUSE LAST FOREVER? is a heartfelt and wholly original memoir about the pain of having to come to terms with a parent's mortality, the way grief so utterly defies logic, and about learning to see the flaws in those that we love and let them go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 254g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 129 x 196 x 27 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781472274489\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xanthi Barker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44097861583098,"sku":"9781472274489","price":7.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1649414999405_book.jpg?v=1649437134","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/will-this-house-last-forever-heartbreaking-beautifully-written-the-times-9781472274489","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}