{"product_id":"9781444743500","title":"Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking","description":"Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained.\u003cbr\u003eWhen he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately, he found a way out of the dark, by accepting the fragility of love and the importance of now.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStaring at Lakes\u003c\/i\u003e started out as a book about depression. And then became a story about growing old, the essence of love and marriage - and sitting in cars, staring at lakes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books Ireland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053409485040,"sku":"9781444743500","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781444743500_p0.jpg?v=1763815934","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781444743500","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}