{"product_id":"9781788166478","title":"Love and the Novel : Life After Reading by Christina Lupton","description":"It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and Lupton made me want to go back to them all' Rachel Cooke, Observer'Incandescent' Lara Feigel, Guardian'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'A delicious combination of critical thought and passionate personal experience.' - Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for SleepRomantic love was born alongside the novel, and  books have been shaping how we experience and  think about our most intimate stories ever since. But  what do novels give us when our own lives diverge  from the usual narrative paths? Christina is a professor used to examining stories  with a critical eye; until one day in middle age she  finds herself falling in love and leaving her marriage  for a romance with another woman. This involves  a familiar enough tale, but when her new partner  suffers a stroke, Tina begins to reflect on the sorts of  love that novels rarely capture. A heady mix of memoir, criticism and storytelling  that draws on novels ranging from Pride and  Prejudice to Price of Salt, Anna Karenina to  Conversations with Friends, to illuminate the ways  love and novels work, and show how some types  of love, which don't race to a narrative end-point,  might be the most important of all.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305449894261,"sku":"9781788166478","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788166478.jpg?v=1762797522","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781788166478","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}