{"product_id":"laura-laura-1","title":"Laura Laura","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[Francis] is just so good at the transcription and transformation of everyday ordinary life, all seen from sideways on, so that everything becomes so strange and so funny.”–Tessa Hadley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman on his way home from the cinema. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a nightmarish journey for Gerald, who is forced to confront the mystery of his own past and to ask himself if he has lived a good life – or even a decent one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the course of this very funny, sometimes disturbing and often moving novel, suppressed memories return to haunt him, including the question of the role he played in a family tragedy. Above all he has to assess the harm he may have done in a long-forgotten love affair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose close to him suddenly appear unfathomable as he begins to question if he truly knows those closest to him and even himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem with exploring the past, Gerald begins to see, is that there are an infinite number of ways to travel through it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315879354750,"sku":"NW9781787702455","price":14.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781787702455.jpg?v=1778507305","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/laura-laura-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}