{"product_id":"9781784741075","title":"Emerald by Ruth Padel","description":"An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel`Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone .'Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel's heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.   Exploring the riches of emerald lore, Padel follows the glint of green - `green for awakening \/ for bringing life back from the dead' - from memories of her mother, a naturalist, to the black honeycomb of a Colombian emerald mine and sunset-pink of the Emerald City, Jaipur. Beneath everything shines the jewel itself, `the only stone in which the flaws are prized'. Beautifully carved and cadenced, Emerald is a moving chronicle of value and loss, and a celebration of all that is precious in the life that remains.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305222517109,"sku":"9781784741075","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784741075.jpg?v=1762797063","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784741075","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}