{"product_id":"laura-laura","title":"Laura Laura","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[Francis] is just so good at the transcription and transformation of everyday ordinary life, all seen from sideways on, so that everything becomes so strange and so funny.\"-Tessa Hadley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman on his way home from the cinema. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a nightmarish journey for Gerald, who is forced to confront the mystery of his own past and to ask himself if he has lived a good life - or even a decent one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the course of this very funny, sometimes disturbing and often moving novel, suppressed memories return to haunt him, including the question of the role he played in a family tragedy. Above all he has to assess the harm he may have done in a long-forgotten love affair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose close to him suddenly appear unfathomable as he begins to question if he truly knows those closest to him and even himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe problem with exploring the past, Gerald begins to see, is that there are an infinite number of ways to travel through it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions (Uk) Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42897179279538,"sku":"9781787703537","price":225.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/373084_63f18086eff466.41902477_9781787703537.jpg?v=1677352611","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/laura-laura","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}