{"product_id":"9780008619176","title":"The Tap Dancer","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Barrow, Andrew \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 20\/07\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008619176,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘My favourite novel and one I wish I’d written.’ ALAN BENNETT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don’t they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love of music halls and metropolitan life. If only people would listen and do as they were told…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e His fourth son William, the long-suffering narrator, is the constant butt of his father’s jokes and victim of his brothers’ indifference. But as death, divorce and other darker dramas follow, father and son slowly establish a strange harmony.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43731023757356,"sku":"9780008619176","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008619176.jpg?v=1723914702","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008619176","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}