{"product_id":"close-your-eyes-14","title":"Close Your Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Close Your Eyes \u003c\/i\u003eis an astonishing book. It manages to be both clear-eyed and harsh, compassionate and just. It takes us right to the heart of the turbulent social changes that defined our last quarter century and it is a revealing, honest, searing novel about mothers and children, about what it means to be part of a family. The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knock out'\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Tsiolkas, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Slap\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1981 a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Afflicted by post-natal depression, she is convinced that she'll hurt her daughter unless she unpicks the mystery of her past, buried deep within a commune in the remote highlands of Scotland. Leaving her young family and life in London, she returns to her childhood home to find a failed utopia shrouded in secrecy. And there, with a looming cult leader, among the rites and rituals, the sacraments and ceremonies, is a single postcard dated a week after her mother's death. As she draws ever closer to the truth about her mother, she fears she might lose even herself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251521933656,"sku":"9780099565758","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780099565758.jpg?v=1764666035","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/close-your-eyes-14","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}