{"product_id":"the-long-delirious-burning-blue-9780993541506","title":"The Long Delirious Burning Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eI have been asleep for forty years. This is what I need: this fear  this risk  this wind rocking my wings. This is what I have been missing. This is what it means to be alive - up here  on the edge of death. Cat Munros safe  carefully-controlled world as a corporate lawyer in Phoenix is disintegrating  and she is diagnosed with panic disorder just before her fortieth birthday. In a last-ditch attempt to regain control of her life  she faces up to her greatest fear of all: she decides to learn to fly. As she struggles to let go of old memories and the anxieties that have always held her back  Cat faces a choice: should she try to piece her old life back together again  or should she give in to the increasingly urgent compulsion to throw it all away? Several thousand miles away in Scotland  Cats mother Laura faces retirement and a growing sense of failure and futility. Alone for the first time in her life  she is forced to face the memories of her violent and abusive marriage  the alcoholism that followed  and her resulting fragile relationship with Cat. But then she joins the local storytelling circle. And as she becomes attuned to the mythical  watery landscape around her  she begins to reconstruct the story of her own life ... From the excoriating heat of the Arizona desert to the misty flow of a north-west Highland sea-loch  Sharon Blackies first novel presents us with landscape in all its transformative power. An honest and moving exploration of the complexities of mother-daughter relationships  The Long Delirious Burning Blue is above all a story of courage  endurance and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647373697077,"sku":"ByrdShop_099354150X","price":96.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780993541506.jpg?v=1781691939","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-long-delirious-burning-blue-9780993541506","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}