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And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205750653106,"sku":"9781841150352","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781841150352.jpg?v=1786028138"},{"product_id":"9780008637590","title":"Day","description":"‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn          ‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon          'A quietly stunning achievement' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous                      As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and learning to go on.                       In a cosy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. A married couple does their best to hide their growing rift from their children. A brother seeks solace from his break-up in a glamorous online avatar. A son takes his first uncertain steps towards independence, and a daughter obsesses over keeping her family safe.             Set on the same day for three consecutive years and against the unsettling backdrop of the pandemic, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on growing older, love and loss and the limitations of family life, from the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham.                         'A wrenchingly tender book'            Financial Times                                'Through its beautiful feel for all that’s fragile and elusive in life, it finds richness and value in the most seemingly decadent, and universal, concerns’             Telegraph","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44581771083954,"sku":"9780008637590","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685805564277,"sku":"9780008637552","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008637590.jpg?v=1792598999"},{"product_id":"9780007437849","title":"By Nightfall","description":"From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of ‘The Hours’, comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity.Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close to twenty years. Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even describe himself as happy. But then Rebecca’s much younger brother Mizzy shows up for a visit. Beautiful, twenty-three years old, with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is looking for direction. 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Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans.In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away – the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder – are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221088317813,"sku":"9780008140403","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008140403_e806d191-bd79-484b-b79c-4a3433675cca.jpg?v=1785658741"},{"product_id":"9780008706128","title":"The Hours","description":"Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, ‘The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and watched by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel.In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity and read her precious copy of ‘Mrs Dalloway’.And in New York in the 1990s, Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment and goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard, an award-winning poet whose mind and body are being ravaged by AIDS.Michael Cunningham’s exquisite and deeply moving novel is a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, Cunningham’s elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222002676085,"sku":"9780008706128","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008706128_0d3a8b0a-a5a6-4414-b3b8-ac45cb3a1beb.jpg?v=1785658624"},{"product_id":"9780241954539","title":"A Home at the End of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places . . . '\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMeet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. 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