{"product_id":"fires-which-burned-brightly-1","title":"Fires Which Burned Brightly.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new, wise and warmly funny work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Fires Which Burned Brightly\u003c\/em\u003e, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood – ‘cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range’ – the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country’s most acclaimed novelists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of Birdsong in his brother’s house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is driven by a desire ‘to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’ It ends with a tribute to Faulks’s parents and a sense of how his own generation was shaped by the disruptive power of war and its aftermath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharply perceptive and alive with a generous wit, \u003cem\u003eFires Which Burned Brightly \u003c\/em\u003eis a work of subtle yet profound intelligence and warmth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sebastian Faulks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598721581208,"sku":"9781804952825","price":30.9,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/5193\/1032\/files\/Sebastian-Faulks-Fires-Which-Burned-Brightly-Mrs-Blackwell-s-Village-Bookshop-Greytown-NZ.jpg?v=1790639834","url":"https:\/\/villagebookshop.co.nz\/products\/fires-which-burned-brightly-1","provider":"Mrs Blackwell's Village Bookshop Greytown","version":"1.0","type":"link"}