{"product_id":"visitors-2","title":"Visitors","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the highly acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Photographer of the Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one life-changing, sun-drenched visit to Cornwall in the summer of 1923...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1923\u003c\/b\u003e. Esme Nicholls is to spend the summer in Cornwall. Her late husband Alec, who died fighting in WWI, grew up in Penzance, and she’s hoping to learn more about the man she loved and lost.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e While there, she will stay with Gilbert, in his rambling seaside house, where he lives with his former brothers in arms. Esme is nervous at first to be the only woman in this community of eccentric artists and former soldiers. 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