{"product_id":"9780345539670","title":"Our Picnics in the Sun: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE SACRAMENTO BEE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning author Morag Joss has penned a beautifully rendered, meticulously crafted, and terrifyingly gripping novel of suspense—ideal for the fans of Eowyn Ivey, Ruth Rendell, and Barbara Vine.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOne night, two strangers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA damage that cannot be undone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For thirty years, Howard and Deborah Morgan have poured all their energy and modest savings into Stoneyridge, a smallholding deep in the English moors. Howard putters with pottery, Deborah dabbles in weaving, and both struggle to tend sheep and chickens and live off the land. But what began with simple dreams of solitude and sunlit picnics in the hills has given way to a harsher reality. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e To help with finances, they decide to turn Stoneyridge into a bed-and-breakfast. But a sudden stroke leaves Howard incapacitated and Deborah overwhelmed. Howard’s world, once so limitless, has shrunk to the confines of their crumbling house; Deborah’s main joy now comes in the form of a brief weekly email from their successful son, who lives abroad.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Then, late one evening, two men arrive needing a room for the night—and set off a chain of events that uncovers the relics of old tragedies. New wounds are cut deep, betrayals and cruelties intermix with tenderness and love. And through it all, Stoneyridge quietly hides the bitter and transformative truth.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Evocative, intimately claustrophobic, and psychologically complex, \u003ci\u003eOur Picnics in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of stunning prose and knife-sharp insight. Morag Joss crafts a modern masterpiece of rising tension that binds and releases like a beating heart, propelling readers to a final page that resonates and haunts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eOur Picnics in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The British writer’s latest is a psychological dazzler.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Morag Joss’s \u003ci\u003eAmong the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This remarkable novel has an abundance of suspense at its core, put forth in beautiful prose that all but glows on the page. . . . [Joss] keeps a jittery tension going as the novel spins toward its violent, grand-scaled finale.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, \u003ci\u003eAmong the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it’s a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year—or any year.”\u003cb\u003e—Caroline Leavitt, author of \u003ci\u003eIs This Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Morag Joss is a writer who knows the old truth that genuine suspense comes not from car chases or gunplay but from the clash of conflicting hearts. \u003ci\u003eAmong the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e is evidence not of a rising talent but of one already fully formed.”\u003cb\u003e—Thomas H. Cook, author of \u003ci\u003eSandrine’s Case\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A spectacular psychological thriller . . . Joss’s beautiful, evocative novel is filled with tension and suspense.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118576189680,"sku":"9780345539670","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345539670_p0.jpg?v=1763688643","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345539670","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}