{"product_id":"9781739983390","title":"The Way the Day Breaks","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: N\/A\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 27 April 2023 by Weatherglass Books in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 206 pages\u003cbr\u003e131 x 197 x 21 | 278g\u003cp\u003eSet in Yorkshire in the 1980s, The Way the Day Breaks is a novel about family, love, memory and mental illness.  We follow one family, mostly in car trips across the dales, as they discuss nature, speculate on the future, dream up get-rich schemes, laugh, quarrel and try to hold together. But there is a darker current running beneath this family's shared life. The father, Sinclair, is approaching a manic episode, and life in the family becomes strained. The impact of his breakdown is heartbreaking and felt through the children down the years, especially by the youngest son, Michael.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs formally inventive as it is narratively rich, the story unfolds in two modes, through dialogue and through the poetic reflections of Michael, some years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Way the Day Breaks is one of the most moving, honest accounts of the way mental illness vibrates through the life of a family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465774207160,"sku":"9781739983390","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781739983390.jpg?v=1734710274","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781739983390","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}