{"product_id":"cacophony-of-bone","title":"Cacophony of Bone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year of many changes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe pandemic arrived and their isolated home became a place of enforced isolation. It was to be a year unlike any we had seen before. But the seasons still turned, the swallows came at their allotted time, the rhythms of the natural world went on unchecked.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Kerri there was to be one more change, a longed-for but unhoped for change. \u003cem\u003eCacophony of Bone\u003c\/em\u003e maps the circle of a year \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e from one winter to the next. It is a telling of a changed life, in a changed world - and it is about all that does not change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll that which simply keeps on \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e living and breathing, nesting and dying \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e in spite of it all. When the pandemic came time seemed to shapeshift, so this is also a book about time. It is, too, a book about home, and what that can mean.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFragmentary in subject and form, fluid of language, this is an ode to a year, a place, and a love, that changed a life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kerri ni Dochartaigh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43876556734721,"sku":"9781838856304","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2024-01-18T151327.126.png?v=1705590818","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/cacophony-of-bone","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}