{"product_id":"take-nothing-with-you-export","title":"Take Nothing With You by Patrick Gale","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER comes a new novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of desire and reality. For all readers of Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT or L P Hartley's THE GO-BETWEEN.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1970s Weston-Super-Mare and ten-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother's quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He laps up lessons from his young teacher, not noticing how her brand of glamour is casting a damaging spell over his frustrated and controlling mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he is enrolled in holiday courses in the Scottish borders, lessons in love, rejection and humility are added to daily practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing in part on his own boyhood, Patrick Gale's new novel explores a collision between childish hero worship and extremely messy adult love lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52776779186493,"sku":"9781472205346","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9781472205346.jpg?v=1785551278","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/take-nothing-with-you-export","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}