{"product_id":"country-people-trade-paperback","title":"Country People (Trade Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER NOW! The estimated release date is 7 September 2026. Please note your complete order will only ship once the Pre-Order item becomes available.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Lyrical and joyful’ Sarah Jessica Parker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Told with warmth and wit, Mason’s prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people’ Lucy Steeds, author of *The Artist\u003c\/strong\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A charming, funny, exhilarating Vermont adventure’ Clare Fuller, author of *Swimming Lessons\u003c\/strong\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Full of joy - and exactly the kind of reading experience we could all do with right now. The book of the summer’ Mick Herron, author of *Slow Horses\u003c\/strong\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47512733712562,"sku":"9781399835022","price":383.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781399835022.webp?v=1781678903","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/country-people-trade-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}