{"product_id":"a-year-of-marvelous-ways","title":"A Year of Marvelous Ways","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe remarkably life-affirming novel from the highly acclaimed author of Still Life, set in 1940s Cornwall following the unlikely friendship between an eighty-nine-year-old woman at the end of her story and a young soldier, reeling from World War II, at the start of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarvelous Ways has lived alone alongside a winding creek near the rugged Cornwall coast for nearly all her life, and has recently taken to spending her days sitting on the steps of her caravan with a pair of binoculars. She is waiting for something, but she's not sure what. She will know when she sees it and that is good enough for her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Drake, a young soldier adrift after the death of a fellow comrade, is grateful for the mission that guides his days. He has agreed to fulfil his friend’s last wish: to hand-deliver a letter to his father in Cornwall. But Francis’s journey doesn't go as planned. After a brief, sweet, and serendipitous reunion with a woman from his past, Francis washes up in Marvelous's creek, broken both in body and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarvelous will come to his aid, and an unlikely friendship will grow between these two solitary souls. Marvelous has lived a long life, with many loves and countless stories to tell, and Francis needs a reason to keep going—even just the hope that life still has more to offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful, bighearted story that bursts with the magic of what it means to grab hold of connection and purpose when it is right in front of you, A Year of Marvelous Ways is a testament to friendship and another timeless classic from the acclaimed Sarah Winman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48012705431793,"sku":"9798217181117","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1468\/8753\/files\/9798217181117.jpg?v=1775739583","url":"https:\/\/cellarbirdbooks.com\/products\/a-year-of-marvelous-ways","provider":"Cellar Bird Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}