{"product_id":"barfoot-joan-gaining-ground","title":"Barfoot, Joan - Gaining Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003eI swear I loved them all, and I did the best I could. And then I left them, left all of it. Abra has a perfect-seeming life as a wife and mother: until one day, she walks away, leaving only a note asking her family not to look for her. In a woodland cabin, her new life alone begins. There are no mirrors, no clocks, no memories: just the squirrels breathing in the forest, and silence of vegetables growing. Years later, a young woman arrives, and the past-flashes begin. Daughter? A strange word. Is this her? And what will this mean?Rediscovered after almost half a century, Joan Barfoot's Gaining Ground (1978) is a both a radical meditation on living on your own terms and an exquisite work of art. It calls to anybody who has ever wanted to escape - who has asked what it costs to be wild, to be sane, to be free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":51331729752342,"sku":"RMX-68299","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/9780571399888.jpg?v=1779381245","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/barfoot-joan-gaining-ground","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}