{"title":"Howard Cunnell","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoward Cunnell's works offer a poignant exploration of personal journeys and remarkable lives, inviting readers into vivid portraits of human experience. His storytelling is marked by a thoughtful balance of reflection and vivid detail, making each biography a compelling narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFans of \u003cem\u003eSun Country\u003c\/em\u003e will appreciate Cunnell's ability to blend emotional depth with insightful observations, capturing the essence of his subjects with sincerity and nuance. His books are a fitting choice for those drawn to the intimate and inspiring contours of memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sun-country-by-howard-cunnell-9781526691606","title":"Sun Country","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘One of Britain's most distinctive and trustworthy voices ... A beautiful book’\u003c\/strong\u003e TIM WINTON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A book to lose yourself inside, and emerge from with enhanced clarity and wisdom’\u003c\/strong\u003e FRANCES WILSON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Tender and unflinching ... A masterclass in clarity and feeling’\u003c\/strong\u003e JIM CRACE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Cunnell writes with so much sensitivity to the sacredness of the everyday’\u003c\/strong\u003e SARA BAUME\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA beautifully written, courageous and deeply moving journey from sorrow to acceptance, from loss to hope, shimmering with coastal light and hard-won wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSun Country\u003c\/em\u003e, Howard Cunnell returns to the southern England beachlands of his boyhood after the death of his mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA love letter to the changing coast and sea, \u003cem\u003eSun Country\u003c\/em\u003e is a book alive with light and shadow, where the white spaces between words are as charged with tension and power as the words themselves. It is a reckoning with the things we inherit – silence and absence, stories told and untold – and the transgression involved in turning a life into art. At the heart of the book is Gillian, his devoted single mother, and the small yet unforgettable details of her life that are woven into a powerful meditation on impermanence, grief, class and solitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once intimate and expansive, this luminous memoir traces one man’s journey from loss back towards life. Through stories about the writers and painters with whom he feels a kinship – including the English Romantics, W. H. Hudson and Agnes Martin – and the history of his own Sussex working-class family, Cunnell writes his way home to a place, to a culture and to himself as an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCunnell’s descriptive power, so widely praised in his first memoir, reaches a new breathtaking level, with the simplicity that only comes from the finest craft and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48022059155692,"sku":"9781526691606","price":38.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781526691606-sun-country.jpg?v=1785287741"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/howard-cunnell.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}