{"product_id":"9781466827745","title":"Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success.One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e described her letters as \"wonderful . . . brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in \u003ci\u003eCounting One's Blessings\u003c\/i\u003e, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent, from her early childhood before World War I to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the real person behind the public face.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170614886640,"sku":"9781466827745","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466827745_p0.jpg?v=1769891150","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466827745","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}