{"product_id":"9781786580597","title":"Bear Woman : The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Ramqvist, Karolina, Vogel, Saskia \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 27\/04\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781786580597,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood, marriage and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile struggling with the demands of family and career, the writer discovers a figure from history, Marguerite de la Rocque, a sixteenth-century noblewoman who was abandoned, pregnant, on a remote island in Nova Scotia. When she is finally rescued, her lover and her baby have died, but she has survived this inhospitable wilderness, alone, for two long years. It's a remarkable story of survival, but one that has been consigned to a footnote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelving deeper into Marguerite's hidden life, the writer begins to question her ability to tell this story, the story of any women in history - or even her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The deeply personal journey of a writer, surprising and illuminating, and for me, familiar in the most reassuring way as she loses herself in this compelling story' - Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41049143181356,"sku":"9781786580597","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781786580597_25d6a609-1eb2-47a4-9654-59f32676314f.jpg?v=1759666097","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781786580597","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}