{"product_id":"the-daffodil-days-signed-copy","title":"The Daffodil Days - Signed Copy","description":"\u003cp\u003e'An exceptional novel, with shades of Hilary Mantel. Helen Bain takes the familiar and makes it utterly new. I loved it. I miss it'\u003cb\u003e Meg Mason, author of \u003ci\u003eSorrow and Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Luminous ... Helen Bain's prose is exact and alive, and the novel builds with a quietly devastating inexorable force you can't look away from' \u003cb\u003ePaula McLain, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Paris Wife\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Utterly compelling' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ei \u003c\/i\u003epaper\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the early 1960s, in a small town near Dartmoor, the church bells ring.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe people of North Tawton go about their days, catching glimpses of one another's lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's the local GP, who knows more about his patients than he would sometimes prefer. There's the young shop assistant at Kestrels, who understands that the ladies who come there for a new outfit sometimes hope to find a new self. There's the tenant farm labourer who rings the tower bells at the church three times a week, the notes - harmonious and clashing - rippling out across the rooftops of the town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmid all these lives, a young couple move into focus. New to the town with their small daughter, they have escaped London for a quieter existence in the thatched house beside the church, Court Green. The life they intend to build here - out of fresh lino tiles, second-hand furniture painted with hearts and flowers, and expertly-cooked suppers for weekend guests - will be a good and happy one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Daffodil Days\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a pivotal year in the marriage of 20th-century literature's most infamous couple, witnessed by the people they lived among. It is a kaleidoscopic portrait of this enigmatic pair, refracted through the rich inner lives of a rural community caught - if only for a moment - in their light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bain, Helen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56616868905346,"sku":"9781526697714-1","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0936\/6575\/5522\/files\/9781526697714.jpg?v=1775818387","url":"https:\/\/archwaybookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-daffodil-days-signed-copy","provider":"Archway Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}