{"product_id":"question-7","title":"Question 7","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Extraordinary’ Sarah Perry\u003cbr\u003e‘Masterpiece’ Colm Tóibín\u003cbr\u003e‘Wholly original. I absolutely loved it’ David Nicholls\u003cbr\u003e‘A brilliant, brilliant book’ James Rebanks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The strangest and most beautiful memoir I’ve ever read. Magnificent' Tim Winton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Flanagan’s finest book... A brilliant meditation on the past of one man and the history that coalesced in his existence’ \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Flanagan’s portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite. His evocation of the texture of life in rural Tas­mania is masterful’ \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir… That it is a masterpiece is without question’ \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Sometimes a book is an experience felt almost in the body… A celebration of all life, it is also a reckoning with the 20th century... It is intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna Funder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62654718869891,"sku":"9781529935479","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1014\/8033\/3699\/files\/9781529935479.jpg?v=1789727225","url":"https:\/\/thebuddyhoodshop.co.uk\/products\/question-7","provider":"The Buddyhood Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}