{"product_id":"country-people-the-book-of-the-summer-mick-herron-by-daniel-mason-9781399835015","title":"Country People : 'The book of the summer' Mick Herron","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book of the summer' mick herron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA good morning america pick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of north woods\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is, simply put, a joyful book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eGuardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Very funny . . . a perfect summer escape . . . as tasty and oddly shaped as an organic apple\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mason deftly delivers larks aplenty, poignancy, gentle satire and some top-tier farce. Be warned that the latter may cause you to spontaneously erupt with mirth in public places. This book dispels gloom: go for it\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's genuine enchantment in this earthy tale of city folk transplanted to rural New England . . . it's a warm and delightfully whimsy free take on fables and family\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A charming book about ambition, marriage and country living\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eSunday Times Style\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Virtuosic\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eR4 Front Row\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lyrical and joyful\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eSarah Jessica Parker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Told with warmth and wit, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eLucy Steeds, author of The Artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book to make the world feel a little lighter, a little warmer\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eRon Charles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate's words, \"a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere\". Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which he begins to suspect might not be a legend at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA family's new beginning. The local's oldest legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Daniel Mason\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A virtuoso\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Has the born storyteller's gift\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Genius\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brave and original\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eGuardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Never fails to surprise and delight\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Teases out the joy and meaning in the sometimes small lives of his characters\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Shows us what is possible when a writer lets his hair down\"  \n\u003cbr\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57473213989237,"sku":"9781399835015","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781399835015.jpg?v=1785851533","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/country-people-the-book-of-the-summer-mick-herron-by-daniel-mason-9781399835015","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}