{"product_id":"paper-lantern","title":"Paper Lantern","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Lantern\u003c\/i\u003e'' \u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTLS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once timely and deeply considered'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A book that speaks powerfully about what it is to be English and about the impact of coronavirus on our national psyche'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Will Burns is the new Defoe'' \u003cb\u003eAdelle Stripe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in a shuttered pub - The Paper Lantern - in a village in the very middle of the country adjacent to the Prime Minister''s Chequers Estate, an unnamed narrator embarks on a series of walks in the Chiltern Hills. As he charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding that have defined a transformative period in his own history and that of the surrounding area, he reveals a past scarred with trauma and a present lacking compass. Traversing local raves in secret valleys, to climate change and capitalism, \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Lantern \u003c\/i\u003ecreates a tangible, lived-in complicated rendering of a place, at the moment when the very sense of place itself is being questioned.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313080246654,"sku":"NW9781474622035","price":9.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781474622035.jpg?v=1778590877","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/paper-lantern","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}