{"product_id":"the-sardinian-story-9781913727369","title":"The Sardinian Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eApennine Mountains, Italy, 1965\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeonora Bacchetti was once a happy child. But at the age of seventeen she has become a wild and rebellious young woman who leaves her parents in despair when she runs away from home with a group of itinerant travellers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the eyes of their friends and neighbours in the tight-knit village of Montacciolo, her parents' good name is ruined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt first, \u003cstrong\u003e Leonora\u003c\/strong\u003e keeps in touch with her mother and father, sending letters and postcards from different countries until, very abruptly, her correspondence stops. The girl has vanished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVague, unreliable rumours of her fate abound, but newspaper appeals, police and private investigations reveal nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUntil, eighteen years later, in the midst of a snowstorm, a stranger from Sardinia knocks on the door of Leonora's father's little mountain house.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow a widower, he has come to terms with never knowing what happened to his daughter. But everything changes when the unexpected visitor claims that he has new information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two men quickly bond and gradually begin to piece together the truth about \u003cstrong\u003eLenora\u003c\/strong\u003e, provoking deep questions about her life and how they have lived their own - questions about love, loyalty, honesty and what being a family really means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sardinian Story\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of exquisite power and deep emotion which will live long in the memories of its readers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Silvertail Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580172763410,"sku":"9781913727369","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_320ee551-d190-448b-9519-f3b5032f2148.jpg?v=1756209149","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sardinian-story-9781913727369","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}