{"product_id":"9780241992210","title":"Oh William! : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022\n\u003cbr\u003eTHE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think we know about those closest to us; and the way people live and love, against all odds. At the heart of this story is the unforgettable, indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who once again offers a profound, lasting reflection on the mystery of existence. 'This is the way of life,' Lucy says. 'The many things we do not know until it is too late.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of America's finest writers' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This is meticulously observed writing, full of probing psychological insight. Lucy Barton is one of literature's immortal characters-brittle, damaged, unravelling, vulnerable and, most of all, ordinary-like us all' Booker Prize Judges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Strout's new novel Tell Me Everything is available now!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48224277168363,"sku":"EB_LI0700_B14-05_SIMS","price":25.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780241992210-1.jpg?v=1788598079","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780241992210","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}