{"product_id":"john-clegg-london-literary-copy","title":"Marina Perezagua: Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAkoya Publishing, 2026, softcover, 240 pages, 12.9 x 19.8 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy mother lingered on the threshold between my life and my death, inhabiting it with the levity and nonchalance that had always marked her treatment of me.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA young woman and her mother spend a day at the beach. Soon the woman is in labour, three months early. At the hospital she slips from the glare of the lights towards the deep shadows of her own childhood, while doctors and nurses fight to keep her and her baby alive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoving with dreamlike intensity between a heartbreaking past and a heart-stopping present, this fearless novel asks: in longing for a child do we also long to break free of a mother? And what was it that happened exactly, that day at the beach?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58513767039360,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/71RNxzfaO9L._SY522.jpg?v=1784903699","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/john-clegg-london-literary-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}