{"product_id":"ancient-light-penguin-john-banville","title":"John Banville - Ancient Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJohn Banville's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAncient Light \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a story of obsessive young love and the power of grief\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure why she has chosen him, he becomes obsessed and tormented by this first love. Half a century later, actor Alexander Cleave - grieving for the recent loss of his daughter - recalls these trysts, trying to make sense of the boy he was and of the needs and frailties of the human heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Sea Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52026450936120,"sku":"9780241955406","price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/5803\/3464\/files\/9780241955406.jpg?v=1775164457","url":"https:\/\/www.deadsearecords.co.uk\/products\/ancient-light-penguin-john-banville","provider":"Dead Sea Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}