{"product_id":"9781399835015","title":"Country People : 'The book of the summer' Mick Herron","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily says about Country People: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat a charming book! Country People is a fun and witty story of a Californian family experiencing a year of country living in a small Massachusetts college town. Occasionally veering slightly into the surreal, this was a lovely book to read with a cast of brilliantly eccentric characters.  The easily distracted Miles is a very fun protagonist to spend time with - but I’m glad I’m not married to him!\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-ad896b7b-7fff-b13f-3a38-41e372fde1d4\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate's, words, 'a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere'. Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Mason, Daniel\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 July 2026 by John Murray Press (John Murray Publishers Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 320 pages, N\/A\u003cbr\u003e241 x 163 x 32 | 530g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mason, Daniel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58393825837430,"sku":"9781399835015","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0362\/8423\/5908\/files\/9781399835015.jpg?v=1785847226","url":"https:\/\/haslemerebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781399835015","provider":"The Haslemere Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}