{"product_id":"9780571404711","title":"Partita : Author of Demon Copperhead, Double Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 October 2026 by Faber \u0026amp; Faber in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e243 x 162 x 33 | 564g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY' - THE TIMES'SUBTLE, UNDENIABLE, AND THEN FULL-ON BLAZING' - RACHEL JOYCE'A VIRTUOSIC PERFORMANCE' - THE FINANCIAL TIMES 'PROFOUND . . . I WAS GRIPPED BY IT, UTTERLY' - KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'FULL OF PATHOS, WISDOM AND HUMOUR' - THE SPECTATOR'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' - BONNIE GARMUSYou've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously entertaining' read as you meet Livia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA song without any answer in it? That's the sound of waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLivia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents. Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view:'Who is that man?'It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the greatest writers alive comes Livia's story, Partita, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREADERS LOVED PARTITA:'A VIRTUOSO WORTHY OF A STANDING OVATION' ????? 'COMPELLING, EMOTIONALLY RICH, IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP READING' ????? 'MY GOODNESS KINGSOLVER CAN WRITE' ????? 'A TRUE WORK OF ART. THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE HELL OF A BOOK HANGOVER' ?????\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56974690681218,"sku":"9780571404711","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780571404711.jpg?v=1791790916","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.com\/products\/9780571404711","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}