{"product_id":"when-pendle-burned-with-light-v-g-lance-9798258295170","title":"When Pendle Burned with Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are places that gather attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd there are places that survive it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a small English village beneath Pendle Hill, nothing unusual appears to happen. People walk familiar paths. Seasons turn without ceremony. Life continues in the quiet, unremarkable ways it always has.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her grandmother's death, Elsie returns to the place she has always known. What begins as a simple act of staying becomes something more difficult to name-a slow reorientation toward a landscape that resists explanation, a community that has learned how to live without turning itself into a story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen outside interest begins to gather-curiosity, interpretation, the desire to preserve and share-Elsie finds herself caught between attention and restraint. But the hill offers no answers. It does not reveal, instruct, or respond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt simply remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Pendle Burned with Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about what happens when a place refuses to become a performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuiet, precise, and deeply atmospheric, it explores memory, inheritance, and the subtle ways communities endure-not by holding on tightly, but by learning when to let go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of\u003c\/b\u003e literary fiction, British landscape writing, and restrained folk realism, this is a novel that lingers-less concerned with what is revealed than with what is left alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e V. G. Lance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798258295170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"V. G. Lance","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172919320831,"sku":"9798258295170","price":13.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-pendle-burned-with-light-v-g-lance-9798258295170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}