{"product_id":"9780008804800","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"Author(s): Luiselli, Valeria, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/07\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Fourth Estate Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945),\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 222 x 141\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9780008804800\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A summer book for life’ ALI SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Dazzles on every page’ KATIE KITAMURA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘I was utterly captivated’ KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, time and starting over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  All I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage. Their journey begins in Sicily during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, if you got the beginning wrong? The trip soon becomes a quest for origins – not just through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With her daughter leaving childhood behind and her mother beginning to show signs of dementia, the narrator finds herself at a crossroads. She must now ask herself: How do we situate ourselves deeply in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a family's memories made and what happens when they disappear?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A road novel, a mother-daughter story, a radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms, Beginning Middle End offers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘What sets Valeria Luiselli’s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness’ COLM TÓIBÍN, author of Long Island\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Beautiful, funny and tender … I loved it’ EMMA HEALY, author of Sweat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘An instant classic, Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere’ SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of Fever Dream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘I loved spending time with the women in Beginning Middle End, who soon began to feel like friends’ OCTAVIA BRIGHT, author of This Ragged Grace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Luminous, reverberating and original – a novel to reckon with and to marvel at’ PAUL FARLEY, author of When It Rained for a Million Years\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luiselli, Valeria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56763122024834,"sku":"9780008804800","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780008804800.jpg?v=1783855846","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9780008804800","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}