{"product_id":"the-music-room-2","title":"William Fiennes: The Music Room [2009] paperback","description":"From the bestselling author of \"The Snow Geese\" comes a mesmerizing tribute to an adored older brother. When William Fiennes was a small boy, his parents inherited an extraordinary home: a castle full of history, secrets and strange artefacts, the perfect hunting ground for child with a brimming imagination. The family set about welcoming visitors - actors, musicians, travelling fairs, members of the public - but behind these very public scenes a more intimate drama was taking place. William's older brother, Richard, had been diagnosed with severe and debilitating epilepsy. Within the enchanted world of the house, Richard is a powerful presence: radiating wit, beguilingly eccentric, and yet also the victim of dark and violent moods. The two brothers are devoted, yet as William grows - ever more independent, ever closer to leaving this idyllic home - Richard's life becomes increasingly circumscribed. One day Will receives a phone call: 'Richard died this morning. Come and join us'. \"The Music Room\" captures a child's wide-eyed wonder and an adult's grief.\u003cbr\u003eIts incantatory prose builds a house that is almost sentient, a landscape bursting with life, and a family animated by generosity and strength. Utterly unique in its sensibility, minutely detailed and tenderly observed, it is not an elegy but a sensory tribute to home, to the workings of memory and imagination, and, above all, a transcendent lovesong for a brother.","brand":"Fiennes, William","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48912826761555,"sku":"XG80330507592","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/fiennes-william-the-music-room-xg80330507592-56875917607251.jpg?v=1726543757","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-music-room-2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}