{"title":"Books by Jeannette Walls","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781471154973","title":"Hang the Moon","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMost folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the twentieth century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother, who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is the Duke's daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That’s a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Jeannette Walls created my new favorite hero in her protagonist, Sallie Kincaid. Sallie is sharp, bold, unflinching, and humorous despite, or maybe because of, her hardships.' — Jennette McCurdy, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eI’m Glad My Mom Died \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eHang the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is Jeannette Walls's masterwork. Epic in scope, the novel is a thrill ride through Prohibition and change in the American South . . . The prose is so elegant and so close to the bone you feel Sallie's heartbeat. Glorious.' \u003c\/b\u003e― \u003cb\u003eAdriana Trigiani, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Left Undone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Does what all good books should: it affirms our faith in the human spirit.' \u003c\/b\u003e― \u003cb\u003eDani Shapiro on \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Like J.D. Salinger or Hemingway before her, Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to let a story tell itself.' \u003c\/b\u003e― \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Independent \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685804122485,"sku":"9781471154997","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43128707317938,"sku":"9781471154973","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781471154997.jpg?v=1792598997"},{"product_id":"9781844081820","title":"The Glass Castle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A terrific story, grippingly told' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I read\u003ci\u003e The Glass Castle\u003c\/i\u003e straight through in an evening, wearing an expression of slack-jawed amazement'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Jeannette Walls was living on Park Avenue, covering the Academy Awards and attending black-tie parties at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her parents were squatting in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRex Walls, her father, was an ingenious adventurer and a hopeless alcoholic. Her mother was an artist who abhorred domestic routine and the chores of motherhood: 'Why should I cook a meal that will be gone in an hour when I can do a painting that will last forever?' Funny sad, quirky and loving, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/i\u003e is an almost incredible story of a nomadic, impoverished childhood. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BRIE LARSON, WOODY HARRELSON AND NAOMI WATTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205574361266,"sku":"9781844081820","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781844081820.jpg?v=1786028465"},{"product_id":"9781471129094","title":"The Silver Star","description":"It is 1970. 'Bean' Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman who 'flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble', takes off to 'find herself'. She leaves the girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that has been in the family for generations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn impetuous optimist, Bean discovers who her father was and learns many stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, so Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Madox, foreman of the mill in town, a big man who bullies workers, tenants and his wife. Bean adores her whip-smart older sister, inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, non-conformist. 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'But I'm not too sure that's a good thing.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Meet Lily Casey Smith: horse-trainer, airplane pilot, flapper, mother and teacher. Born in 1901 in the rolling grassland of West Texas, Lily grows up with a passion for horses and an indomitable spirit. At age 15 she leaves home, riding 500 miles across the American West on her beloved pony Patch, her pearl-handled six-shooter by her side. Her goal: a teaching post in a frontier-town school. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lily will handle everything life throws at her - flash-floods, tornadoes, the Great Depression, a swindling husband, love and heartbreak - with courage, determination and a smile as wide as the Texas skies.*~*~*\u003cbr\u003e 'With \u003cb\u003econvincing, unprettified narration\u003c\/b\u003e, Walls weaves her own ancestor into this collective rough-and-tumble heritage... 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