{"product_id":"departures","title":"Departure(s)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe new book from the Booker Prize-winning Julian Barnes, about looking back, facing the future, and coming to the end of life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeparture(s)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a work of fiction – but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade into anecdotes, and then into memory. Does it matter if what we remember really happened? Or does it just matter that it mattered enough to be remembered?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt begins at the end of life – but it doesn’t end there. Ultimately, it’s about the only things that ever really mattered: how we find happiness in this life, and when it is time to say goodbye.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'There's no one quite like Julian Barnes'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGUARDIAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEverything Julian Barnes writes changes everything' FRANCES WILSON\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56391041155445,"sku":"9781787335721","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/b1a4c976-120c-48ab-802b-014e37d2a150.jpg?v=1763980783","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/departures","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}