{"product_id":"9781910709498","title":"Prodigal: Shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2019","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Lambert, Charles\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 23 August 2018 by Gallic Books (Aardvark Bureau).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e173 x 170 x 30 | 334g\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Polari PrizeCharles Lambert brings us an innovative family drama exploring the nature of trust, death, and the things we do in the name of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A writer who never ceases to surprise' Jenny Offill, author of WeatherMeet Jeremy, a hapless fifty-something who is scraping together a living in Paris writing soft-core pornography as 'Nathalie Cray'. When his all-but-estranged sister tells him their father is dying, he reluctantly travels back to his parental home in the English countryside. Confronted with a life he had always sought to escape, Jeremy begins an emotionally fraught journey into his family's chequered past - back to the unexpected death of his mother in a provincial Greek hospital years earlier, and even further back, to the moment at which the Eldritch family fell apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bold take on the queer coming-of-age story, Prodigal deftly reconsiders everything we think we know about the nature of trust, death, and what we do to each other in the name of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lambert, Charles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465886994616,"sku":"9781910709498","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781910709498.jpg?v=1734730128","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781910709498","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}