{"product_id":"cobweb-walking-sara-banerji-9781448208333","title":"Cobweb Walking","description":"As a child-so tiny and delicate that her father calls her fairy-Morgan has a special relationship with nature, for she can hear the Silence, the harmonising force that creates and sustains all things. The hum­ming of the Silence is her secret, even from her beloved father, as is the day that she walks along a cobweb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut with adolescence comes a loss of childhood innocence and the intrusion into her perfect world of an unwanted step­mother and baby sister. These loud and chaotic presences, together with an act, as she perceives it, of unwarranted violence by her father, have a traumatic effect on Morgan. Sent by her father to get help-for the family has been trapped in a fall-out shelter for days-Morgan, a dwarf, goes instead on an odyssey into the unknown, seemingly hostile, world outside her home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMourning the disappearance of magic from her life and realising for the first time that she is physically deformed, Morgan learns that only through love can she regain her empathy with the Silence and the ability to transcend the boundaries that enclose other people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this, her first novel, Sara Banerji has created a work of startling originality and beauty. Full of vivid images, \u003ci\u003eCobweb Walking\u003c\/i\u003eis a perceptive story about shattered childhood dreams and the painful awaken­ing to self-awareness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Banerji\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1448208335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781448208333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.34d","brand":"Sara Banerji","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935845679359,"sku":"9781448208333","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ddeca066-f078-407e-9eea-02d9d529f52b.jpg?v=1681422167","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cobweb-walking-sara-banerji-9781448208333","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}