{"product_id":"9781846977114","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Pianos and Flowers : Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind by Alexander McCall Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 02\/07\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Pianos and Flowers we are invited to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer.   Three sisters brought up in Penang, caught in the tide of war.   A group of small boys in a Glasgow slum - their childhood blighted by poverty, their adult lives taking very different paths.   A young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities.   And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369335337333,"sku":"9781846977114","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781846977114","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}