{"product_id":"ancient-light-1","title":"Ancient Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's suicide ten years before. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAncient Light\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid: the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief. It is a dazzling novel, funny, utterly pleasurable and devastatingly moving in the same moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Illuminating, funny, devastating. A meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Banville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence. A luminous, breathtaking work' \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Startlingly brilliant. Terrific - full of sadness and yearning' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32113511301203,"sku":"9780241986455","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241986455_4d5a8dde-c14b-4f19-81cd-7d8569f10feb.jpg?v=1764674125","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ancient-light-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}