{"product_id":"9780006393016","title":"A Good House","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Good House\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Bonnie Burnard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBonnie Burnard’s much celebrated \u003cem\u003eA Good House\u003c\/em\u003e has become a modern classic with its rendering of three generations of ordinary family life.\u003cp\u003eBill Chambers has come home from the Second World War with several fingers missing, but with his hope intact. He wants the best for his wife, Sylvia, and his children, Patrick, Paul and Daphne, and with his steady job at the hardware store in his small hometown, the future opens broadly before him. But as the family spreads from its small town into the larger world, the bonds deepen and widen, and sometimes fray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurnard brings her own original voice to the story, unfolding a wonderfully complex web of family emotions and loyalties. Her keen powers of observation, her mastery of detail, her wit and her sensitivity to emotional nuance create a moving and profound portrait of family life. A magnetic story of an ordinary small-town family, \u003cem\u003eA Good House\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780006393016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phyllis Bruce Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41108215922894,"sku":"9780006393016","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780006393016","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}