{"product_id":"racing-the-wind-patricia-nolan-9781910723975","title":"Racing the Wind: A Cumbrian Childhood","description":"This powerful and beautifully-written account is the memoir of Patricia Nolan who lived in a tiny community in Cumbria and it captures the end of an era in the 1950s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'When the first organ-transplant was taking place, when computers were starting to revolutionise our lives and television was arriving in the sitting-rooms of Britain, in my house we were still dipping buckets into a stream to make a cup of tea and going to bed by candlelight, ' she writes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tale covers three years of the author's life, made particularly vivid by a traumatic event which opens the book, but which goes on to depict a poor but close rural community with its village school, its annual country show, its Christmas celebrations and its local characters - all set against the dramatic back-drop of Scafell and the surrounding hills and moors on which she and her friends ran free\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Nolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1910723975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910723975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Merlin Unwin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d","brand":"Patricia Nolan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43937421492479,"sku":"9781910723975","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_896969c9-07b2-4e98-b038-79129ffdb5d2.jpg?v=1681429965","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/racing-the-wind-patricia-nolan-9781910723975","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}