{"product_id":"2026100012539-secondhand-the-golden-sovereign-a-conclusion-to-over-the-bridge","title":"The Golden Sovereign: A Conclusion To Over The Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew memoirs capture the delicate threshold between boyhood and manhood with the quiet brilliance of The Golden Sovereign, the concluding volume of Richard Church's celebrated autobiography. Picking up where Over the Bridge left off, this final chapter chronicles Church's emergence from a modest South London upbringing into the wider, more turbulent world of early twentieth-century England — a young man of keen literary sensibility navigating the competing demands of civil service duty, poetic ambition, and personal grief.\n\nChurch writes with a prose style that is at once luminous and restrained, drawing the reader into an intimate portrait of artistic self-discovery set against the backdrop of Edwardian and early Georgian England. His autobiography stands as a significant contribution to the tradition of English literary memoir, comparable in its introspective depth to the works of Edmund Gosse and J.R. Ackerley. The Golden Sovereign leaves the reader with a profound sense of a life quietly but irrevocably transformed — and with the lingering question of what it truly costs a sensitive soul to choose art over convention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948312727771,"sku":"2026100012539-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ff1589ff-e197-408a-ba02-ac9c2cf67c27.png?v=1793104489","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012539-secondhand-the-golden-sovereign-a-conclusion-to-over-the-bridge","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}