{"product_id":"the-orange-notebooks-9781998336197","title":"The Orange Notebooks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTold through a mother's journals written while interned in a French psychiatric ward, this is a novel about love, and the lost language and rituals of mourning.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe siesta hour, France. Bees fly in lavender bushes. Anna has just come home, but something is wrong, and she fears nothing will ever be right again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna is haunted by the death of her only child, Lou. Hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, Anna becomes determined to undo death by writing everything down in a set of orange notebooks: fragments and tales about bees, death rituals, the story of her relationship with Lou's Basque father, Antton, and their meeting on a ferry on the day Princess Diana died, a cursed trench coat, Lou's Jewish and Basque heritage, and the duplicity of the colour beige.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the hospital, Anna meets Yann, a Breton sea captain. Together, they go on a surreal, Orphic journey to the underworld, sailing from Finistère to the middle of the English Channel, to try and find Lou at the exact point where his destiny began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusanna Crossman\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist and award-winning fiction writer. Her acclaimed memoir, \u003ci\u003eHome is Where We Start: Growing Up In The Fallout of The Utopian Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Fig Tree, Penguin, in 2024. She has recent work in \u003ci\u003eAeon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. A published novelist in France, she regularly collaborates with artists. When she's not writing, she works on three continents as a lecturer and clinical arts-therapist. Born in the UK, Susanna Crossman grew up in an international commune and now lives in France with her partner and three daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Assembly Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615502237970,"sku":"9781998336197","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd2aa9b2-e700-4d95-9e94-16aa5fa082c8.jpg?v=1758099385","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-orange-notebooks-9781998336197","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}