{"product_id":"9781632860019","title":"The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream","description":"\u003cp\u003eKatharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by a loving adoptive family, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out--accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie--with the idea of following a river from the sea to its source. The luminously observed landscape grounds the walkers, providing both a constant and a context to their expeditions. But what begins as a diversion from grief evolves into a journey to the source of life itself: a life threatening illness forces Katharine to seek a genetic medical history, and this new and unexpected path delivers her to the door of the woman who abandoned her all those years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining travelogue, memoir, exquisite nature writing, and fragments of poems with tales from Celtic mythology, \u003ci\u003eThe Fish Ladder\u003c\/i\u003e has a rare emotional resonance. It is a portrait of motherhood, of a literary marriage, a hymn to the adoptive family, but perhaps most of all it is an exploration of the extraordinary majesty of the natural world. Imbued with a keen and joyful intelligence, this original and life-affirming book is set to become a classic of its genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182998208752,"sku":"9781632860019","price":18.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632860019_p0.jpg?v=1763675038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632860019","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}