{"title":"Books by Daisy Lafarge","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781783787883","title":"Paul","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her out of Paris, her research unfinished and her sense of self unmoored.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the eco-farm Noa Noa, she comes under the influence of its charismatic and domineering owner, Paul. As his hold over her tightens and her plans come unstuck, she finds herself entangled in a strange, uneven relationship. On a fraught road trip across the South of France, both are forced to reckon with uncomfortable truths. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compelling and perturbing story of power, passivity and the cage of being 'good', \u003ci\u003ePaul\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a novelist of extraordinary perspicacity and lyricism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205057904818,"sku":"9781783787883","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781783787883.jpg?v=1786025499"},{"product_id":"9781913512378","title":"Lovebug","description":"'The pathogen arrives anyway and takes a seat at the table. Conditioned to welcome damage, I am curious about this uninvited guest. You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat.' In Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life. Turning to microbiology, mysticism, and psychoanalysis - as well as the raw materials of love and life - Lafarge navigates the uncomfortable intimacy between the human body and the many bacteria, viruses, and parasites to which it is host. Lovebug is a book about the poetics of infection, and about how we can learn to live with multispecies ambivalence. How might we forge non-phobic relationships to our 'little beasts'? How might we rewild our imaginations? In weaving the personal with the pathological, Lovebug complicates the idea of coherent selfhood, revealing life as a site of radical vulnerability and an ongoing negotiation with limit.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205721161906,"sku":"9781913512378","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913512378.jpg?v=1786030420"},{"product_id":"astralabe","title":"Astralabe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 12th Century coming-of-age tale – vivid, sensual and darkly erotic – from a major literary talent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleven year old Astralabe’s windswept days stretch by. Afternoons at the Abbey, trying to concentrate on his lessons; hours mesmerised by the lilac sky mirrored in the stingers washed up at his feet; cool evenings spent absorbing the whisperings of the village.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstralabe is alone. The infamous child of Abelard and Heloise’s forbidden love, his parents are as dazzling and distant as the stars. Astralabe’s origins separate him from the residents of the abbey just as his learning breeds suspicion among the villagers. The boy devotes every spare moment to earning his father’s good opinion. Letters and treatises – his texts of the world – are sealed with hope, sent seemingly into the void.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut those around him have other concerns: lambs born mangled, healthy young women fail. Discontent in the village blooms, and as the tension between the villagers and monks increases, inquisitive Astralabe begins to see what so many around him cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507780264309,"sku":"9780571400010","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571400010.jpg?v=1792424317"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-daisy-lafarge.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}