{"product_id":"9781509819874","title":"The Meeting Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eToday I saw the strange woman again. For I am sure this poor ghost is, in fact, a woman. It is true she is dressed as a man, though no man I ever saw dressed in quite this fashion . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Clarice Mitchell arrives at an isolated farmhouse to rehearse a production of Pericles, she leaves the well-charted country behind. Entering a world as mysterious as the unregulated, unpredictable moorland, she finds herself in odd company and on the verge of strange discoveries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is the middle-aged woman in Victorian costume who watches her. And the wild-haired girl first glimpsed standing in a moorland pool and later on a journey? Why does the shadow of a priory long since gone still fall across the farm where Clarice is staying, and where once her old headmistress used to stay?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the stories of these unusual women interweave across the centuries - disturbing stories of violence and witchcraft, passion and prejudice, during the Wars of the Roses, in stifling Victorian England and in the present day - one woman has to come to terms with the impossible choices of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrafted with all Mary Hocking's characteristic subtlety and skill, \u003ci\u003eThe Meeting Place\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding, moving novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143859454192,"sku":"9781509819874","price":6.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781509819874_p0.jpg?v=1763721135","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781509819874","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}