{"product_id":"the-way-we-danced-sophia-hillan-9781781999486","title":"The Way We Danced","description":"Ruth Deacon s academic career is in the doldrums, her marriage is in shreds, an elderly relative with dementia has become an impossible burden. Ruth needs a miracle. It comes in the form of The Memory Book . Edith Barratt, an elderly writer seeing out her last days in a nursing home, has decided to entrust a lifetime of writings to Ruth, to publish after her death. And, by also giving her the Memory Book, she breaks a lifetime of silence about a youthful love that has dominated her entire life. Ruth eagerly seizes on this material it could rescue her career. When she discovers that Edith s one-time love was an idealistic soldier of the Third Reich, she is even more encouraged. But then she finds herself faced with a challenge: that of exploring the gap between memory and desire, reality and illusion. Did Edith s young German truly love her? And what is the significance of a half-remembered melody sung by Fred Astaire? Starting in Belfast, moving through pre-war Berlin and returning to Ireland s tentative and fragile peace of 1995, Sophia Hillan s new novel traces a path to those things that cannot, in the end, be taken away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophia Hillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781999481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781999486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poolbeg Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Sophia Hillan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486040469759,"sku":"9781781999486","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e594e8ab-b98c-4e90-ac6e-25dbec50bea9.jpg?v=1778053271","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-way-we-danced-sophia-hillan-9781781999486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}