{"product_id":"9780571350520-rising-down","title":"The Rising Down","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLives in a Sussex Landscape\u003cbr\u003eA luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Moderns \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWeatherland\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eTLS \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Remarkable.' \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderful.'\u003ci\u003e GUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fascinating.' \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' \u003ci\u003eCOUNTRY LIFE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Humane, humorous and joyful.' RUTH SCURR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the celebrated critic and cultural historian Alexandra Harris returned to her childhood home of West Sussex, she realised that she barely knew the place at all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she probed beneath the surface, excavating layers of archival records and everyday objects - bringing a lifetime's reading to bear on the place where she started - hundreds of unexpected stories and hypnotic voices emerged from the area's past. Who has stood here, she asks; what did they see?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the painter John Constable and the modernist writer Ford Madox Ford to the lost local women who left little trace, these electrifying encounters - spanning the Downs, Poland, Australia, Canada - inspired her to imagine lives that seemed distant, yet were deeply connected through their shared landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy focusing on one small patch of England, Harris finds 'a World in a Grain of Sand' and opens vast new horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41548851249249,"sku":"9780571350520","price":23.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36328510_1fd31e58-3975-48ca-95e1-a2559d3fd6b5.jpg?v=1759408639","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571350520-rising-down","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}