{"product_id":"four-french-holidays","title":"Four French Holidays","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based \u003cem\u003eThe Greengage Summer\u003c\/em\u003e on her recollections of her family’s 1923 battlefield-tour manqué in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp’s 1936 holiday in Southern France led to ‘Still Waters’ and \u003cem\u003eThe Nutmeg Tree\u003c\/em\u003e: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne Du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Scapegoat\u003c\/em\u003e was the immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons’ last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in \u003cem\u003eThe Snow-Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57309496934782,"sku":"NW9781911397274","price":24.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781911397274.jpg?v=1778579867","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/four-french-holidays","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}