{"product_id":"2026100012341-secondhand-a-song-of-sixpence-a-pocketful-of-rye","title":"A Song Of Sixpence: A Pocketful Of Rye","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: bce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterwork of autobiographical fiction, A Song of Sixpence draws readers into the turbulent youth of Laurence Carroll, a young Catholic boy navigating the economic hardships and social prejudices of early twentieth-century Scotland. Through Laurence's eyes, A.J. Cronin chronicles a coming-of-age journey marked by poverty, ambition, and the fierce desire to rise above one's circumstances — a story rooted in the author's own formative experiences and imbued with the warmth and grit of working-class life.\n\nCronin, celebrated for his unflinching social conscience and cinematic narrative style, presents a portrait of childhood and adolescence that resonates with universal themes of identity, faith, and perseverance. His prose carries the dual weight of nostalgia and sharp social observation, painting a Scotland alive with contradiction — beautiful yet harsh, deeply religious yet riven with class anxiety. A Pocketful of Rye, its companion volume, continues Laurence's story as a young doctor abroad, deepening the emotional and moral reckoning at the heart of this richly layered saga. Together, these two novels form one of Cronin's most personal and enduring achievements, leaving the reader to wonder how much of Laurence's quiet determination was, in truth, Cronin's own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022675312859,"sku":"2026100012341-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/83f819e6-3ddf-4f94-97a1-0603f4f9c861.png?v=1793665499","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012341-secondhand-a-song-of-sixpence-a-pocketful-of-rye","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}