{"product_id":"held-by-anne-michaels-signed","title":"Held by Anne Michaels (Signed)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback - bookplated\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeld is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53538828517757,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0595\/8113\/7104\/files\/9781526659125.jpg?v=1731336734","url":"https:\/\/www.city-books.pro\/products\/held-by-anne-michaels-signed","provider":"City Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}