{"product_id":"9781743157619","title":"Way My Father Tells It, The: The story of an Australian Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt isn’t easy to reminisce, alone, into a tape recorder. Yet that is what I asked my father, John Bowden, to do when, in the late 1980s I suggested he should not only record our family history, but reflect on a life that embraced almost the entire twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen in 1998, at the age of 91, Father ‘woke up dead’ in his own bed, in his own house (which he never wanted to leave), not long after adding a postscript – a final chapter to his life story …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Way my Father Tells It is a story of the joys and sorrows of childhood and adolescence, of falling in love, going to war and returning to re-establish a family life. It is filled with wry charm and self-effacing humour and is a wonderful evocation of an Australia now changed beyond recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bolinda audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038963286256,"sku":"9781743157619","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781743157619_p0.jpg?v=1763704053","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781743157619","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}