{"product_id":"partita-by-barbara-kingsolver-sprayed-edge","title":"Partita by Barbara Kingsolver SPRAYED EDGE","description":"\u003cp\u003eFROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience' NEW YORK TIMES,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on Demon Copperhead)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously entertaining' read as you meet Livia. A song without any answer in it? That's the sound of waiting. Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents. Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view:'Who is that man? 'It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the greatest writers alive comes Livia's story, Partita, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders love Barbara Kingsolver: 'Barbara Kingsolver's way with words is beyond description!'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 'That's the magic of Barbara Kingsolver I guess - to make you laugh in one line and then absolutely wreck you in the next. What a genius'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'I love Kingsolver because I never know where she will go next but it will always be somewhere that I've never been before'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 'Barbara Kingsolver has an understanding of the human condition and the abuses inflicted by an unjust society upon those who do not deserve that'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A trademark ability to tell a story with empathy'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'One of those writers who somehow can produce writing that sounds as natural as talking and yet that somehow comes out as poetry'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Kingsolver is a magician with words'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat:Hardback 352 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003eImprint:Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003eEdition:Main\u003cbr\u003eISBN:9780571404711\u003cbr\u003ePublished:6 Oct 2026\u003cbr\u003eClassifications:Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003eWeight:564g\u003cbr\u003eDimensions:243 x 162 x 33 (mm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave of Nostalgia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66138439024989,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/8838\/2301\/files\/9780571404711.jpg?v=1791364832","url":"https:\/\/waveofnostalgia.co.uk\/products\/partita-by-barbara-kingsolver-sprayed-edge","provider":"Wave of Nostalgia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}