{"product_id":"john-of-john","title":"John of John","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e-bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSHUGGIE BAIN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eYOUNG MUNGO.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book is special' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- Colm Tóibín\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Passionate, liberating, and gorgeous'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMin Jin Lee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant and rare' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- Ann Patchett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e-\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eElaine Feeney\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fierce, glorious sting of a novel' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- Lauren Groff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mesmeric, transportive, vividly sensory' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e- Bernardine Evaristo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJohn of John\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56717767475573,"sku":"978-1035086955","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/4086c61a-229d-47fe-8137-36bb8d2cb947.jpg?v=1770627267","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.com\/products\/john-of-john","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}