{"title":"Books by Anne Lamott","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781786898555","title":"Bird by Bird","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBird by Bird \u003c\/i\u003eis the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written, wise and immensely helpful, this is the book for all serious writers and writers-to-be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205060755634,"sku":"9781786898555","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786898555_ec7cefa0-01cc-452a-9ab1-69ce3005e7b7.jpg?v=1786025598"},{"product_id":"9781786898531","title":"Almost Everything","description":"Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest, Anne Lamott shows how we can rediscover the hope and wisdom that are buried within us and that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, \u003ci\u003eAlmost Everything\u003c\/i\u003e pinpoints these moments of insight and, with warmth and humour, offers a path forward.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205500666034,"sku":"9781786898531","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786898531_d28693c9-4851-4bfd-8d58-fb8db19917cd.jpg?v=1786034606"},{"product_id":"9781444789157","title":"Stitches","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one another and to what's sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese questions lie at the heart of \u003ci\u003eStitches\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Lamott's follow-up to her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling work, \u003ci\u003eHelp, Thanks, Wow. \u003c\/i\u003eIn this book, she explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped sheets of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together - one stitch at a time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth, humour and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299463377269,"sku":"9781444789157","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781444789157_2fa3ae1d-9f96-4ca2-bf8f-f98ad027a627.jpg?v=1786021240"},{"product_id":"9781444750355","title":"Help, Thanks, Wow","description":"'I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help. Thanks. Wow.' Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and perceptive writing about faith and prayer. And in Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she's learned about prayer into these simple, transformative truths.   It is these three prayers - asking for assistance, appreciating the good we witness, and feeling awe at the world - that get us through the day and show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they have meant to her over the years and how they've helped, and explores how others have embraced these ideas.   Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is a book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299646943605,"sku":"9781444750355","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781444750355_17fcf4fa-b6dc-474c-8c25-d3a4edbf625a.jpg?v=1786034275"},{"product_id":"9781805303442","title":"Somehow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE #1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove is our only hope. It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSomehow: Thoughts on Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity and guides us forward. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn each chapter, Lamott refracts all the colours of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. Drawing from her own life and experience to delineate the intimate and elemental ways that love buttresses us in the face of despair, she galvanises us to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energises, sustains as it surprises. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of the compassion and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers, \u003ci\u003eSomehow \u003c\/i\u003eis classic Anne Lamott: funny, warm and wise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307699450229,"sku":"9781805303442","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781805303442_61474748-4a28-44fe-8ba4-b48134316234.jpg?v=1786028410"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-anne-lamott.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}