{"product_id":"the-given-world-by-melissa-harrison-9781529154900","title":"The Given World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuminous and intimate, \u003cem\u003eThe Given World\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of belonging, loss and the richly interwoven connections between people, history and place. From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eAll Among the Barley\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eApril brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting - the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA woman falls while out walking and hopes to be found before nightfall; a doctor realises, too late, that he has long underestimated his wife; across the village, people are plagued by the same vast and unsettling dream. And alone in a converted priory, overlooking watermeadows unchanged for centuries, Clare Grey receives news which will force her to reconsider her family's past and the fresh weight of her solitary existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648346374380,"sku":"9781529154900","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529154900-the-given-world.jpg?v=1779257359","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-given-world-by-melissa-harrison-9781529154900","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}