{"product_id":"country-people-by-daniel-mason-9781399835022","title":"Country People","description":"🍃 \u003cb\u003e'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron \u003c\/b\u003e🍃\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eNORTH WOODS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'LYRICAL and JOYFUL' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Jessica Parker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Told with WARMTH and WIT, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people'\u003cb\u003e Lucy Steeds, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Artist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A CHARMING, FUNNY, EXHILARATING Vermont adventure' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eClare Fuller, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSwimming Lessons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate's, words, 'a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere'. Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e🍃 \u003cb\u003eA FAMILY'S NEW BEGINNING. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE LOCAL'S OLDEST LEGEND. \u003c\/b\u003e🍃\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Daniel Mason \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A virtuoso' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Has the born storyteller's gift' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Genius' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Brave and original' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Never fails to surprise and delight' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Teases out the joy and meaning in the sometimes small lives of his characters' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Shows us what is possible when a writer lets his hair down' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521272332524,"sku":"9781399835022","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/acc07b9f1bc49bdf7dfd59124572e1a4.jpg?v=1776127119","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/country-people-by-daniel-mason-9781399835022","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}