{"product_id":"music-in-the-dark-by-sally-magnusson-9781529345957","title":"Music in the Dark","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Wonderful and moving' Clare Chambers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Utterly absorbing' \u003cem\u003eSunday Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat. He doesn't recognise her, but she remembers him at once. Not that she plans to mention it. She has no intention of trusting anyone enough to let herself be vulnerable again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime ago, growing up in a Highland glen, Jamesina Ross wrote songs about the land and the kin who had worked it for generations. But her music was no match for the violence her community faced in the Highland Clearances. Jamesina has borne the disfigurements of that day ever since, on her face and inside her head. Her lodger thinks that if she would only dare to open the past, she might have the chance of a future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a story about resilience, memory, resurrection - and those parts of who we are that nobody can take away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful exploration of unlooked-for love in later life, its contrariness and its awkward, surprising joys, \u003cem\u003eMusic in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about resilience, memory, resurrection - and those parts of who we are that nobody can take away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431695073516,"sku":"9781529345957","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529345957.jpg?v=1774557387","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/music-in-the-dark-by-sally-magnusson-9781529345957","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}