{"product_id":"9781848876057-secondhand-today","title":"Today","description":"August, 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents' home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for the bank holiday weekend. His crippled mother has been discharged from a nursing home, his brother drives down from London with wife and child. But as the guests converge, John's father dies. Today follows the numb implications of sudden death: the surprise, the shock, the deep fissures in a family exposed through grief. But there is also laughter, fraud and theft; the continuation of life, all viewed through the eyes of Lilian Hallowes - John's father's secretary - never quite at the centre of things but always observing, the still point in a turning world. Today is a remarkable debut, an investigation of bereavement, family and Englishness, beautiful in its understatement and profound in its psychological acuity.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737510031579,"sku":"9781848876057-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c8a4d353-b0aa-4f09-af14-290e93667487.jpg?v=1777743653","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781848876057-secondhand-today","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}