{"product_id":"night-waking-9781847082701","title":"Night Waking","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler  a precocious  death-obsessed seven-year-old  and a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay  a desolate island in the Hebrides  so he can count the puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived  torn between mothering and her desire for the pleasures of work and solitude  Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a babys skeleton in the garden of their house. Her narrative is punctuated by letters home  written 200 years before  by May  a young  middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious  insular islanders. The lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal ambivalence  the way we try to control children  and about womens vexed and passionate relationship with work. Mosss second novel displays an exciting expansion of her range - showing her to be both an excellent comic writer and a novelist of great emotional depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275006304309,"sku":"ByrdShop_184708270X","price":96.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781847082701.jpg?v=1780500039","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/night-waking-9781847082701","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}