{"product_id":"9783863912949","title":"The Blacksmith's Daughter by Katy Derbyshire","description":"Told with great affection for his characters, Selim ?zdogan's trilogy traces out the life of G?l, a Turkish girl who grows up in rural 1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker. Book one details her initially idyllic childhood, ruptured by her mother's early death. Ever close to her loving father, G?l grows into a warm-hearted, hard-working young woman. The Blacksmith's Daughter is a novel full of carefree summers and hard winters, old wives' tales and young people's ambitions - the melancholy beauty and pain of an ordinary life.   `Reading it was like falling in love. If everyone read this book, the world would be a better place - more considerate, more liveable, more tolerant.' ?Fatih Akin, director of The Edge of Heaven;`The book's muted poetry all the way to its quiet ending warms the soul like later summer wind gently stroking through hair.' S?chsische Zeitung;`The novel enchants its readers with the sincerity and love with which it assesses the weight of the simple things in life.' Fachdienst Germanistik;`A mature, light, wise book.' Kreuzer magazine\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309891727733,"sku":"9783863912949","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783863912949.jpg?v=1762813762","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783863912949","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}