{"product_id":"2940169252729","title":"A Year of Marvellous Ways","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Year of Marvellous Ways\u003c\/i\u003e is the much anticipated and utterly beguiling new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international best seller \u003ci\u003eWhen God Was a Rabbit\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone on a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for somethingamp;mdash;she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrake is a young soldier left reeling by the war. He's agreed to fulfil a dying man's last wish and hand deliver a letter to the man's father in Cornwall. But Drake's journey doesn't go to plan and sees him literally wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Marvellous comes to his aid, an unlikely friendship grows between the two. Can Drake give Marvellous what she needs to say good-bye to the world, and can she give him what he needs to go on?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Octopus Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104429490416,"sku":"2940169252729","price":26.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169252729_p0.jpg?v=1763676656","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169252729","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}