{"product_id":"9781039059122","title":"Poor Baby [MAR.16]","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEXPECTED RELEASE MARCH 16th, \u003cimg\u003e2027\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(184, 13, 46);\"\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER ITEM; RELEASE DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE\/DELAYS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Bernstein, a \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e Best of Young British Novelist and the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eStudy for Obedience\u003c\/i\u003e, remakes the Gothic in a novel haunted by the spectres of complicity and inheritance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unnamed narrator and her partner, Emil, are the new occupants of Westermoy, an old gamekeeper’s cottage, hidden from the rest of a vast country estate by a dense wood. He is overseeing an ambitious regeneration while she is employed as a gardener. Not long after the young couple moves into the cottage, she discovers she is pregnant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut even from the first happy evening of their arrival, there are spaces in Westermoy where she does not like to tread—an anteroom that she passes as quickly as she can, a corner in the raised beds where nothing grows. The gamekeeper watches her as she works in the glasshouses, and an old woman, Bernadette, who feels terribly familiar, keeps edging her toe into the door, prying it open, insisting she clean Westermoy, while dispensing advice about the pregnancy and upcoming labour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmil is taken away suddenly by the estate’s owner on business, and almost as soon as he leaves, the narrator finds herself besieged by mysterious letters, spectral figures and the uncanny persistence of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFecund and incantatory, \u003ci\u003ePoor Baby\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of inheritance and its hauntings, one that again showcases Sarah Bernstein’s singular brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover | 208 pages | 5.18\" x 8\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Bernstein (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68013375652072,"sku":"9781039059122x","price":34.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c286e797-b724-47ae-8380-407150626c9b.jpg?v=1793126447","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.ca\/products\/9781039059122","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}