{"product_id":"9781917140263","title":"Love Letters on the River","description":"Includes a dozen black and white illustrations commissioned exclusively for this publication by acclaimed Welsh artist Guy Manning.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom a young age Carly Holmes has been in thrall to the creatures that live around us. Her childhood companion was a blind gander called Beep Beep who thought she was his wife. She nearly postponed her wedding when a pair of wrens nested in a hole by her back door and cut it very fine to fledge their chicks into an assorted audience of cats and magpies.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of essays, beautifully illustrated throughout, are each of them love letters to the Teifi valley and to the river that winds through Carly'             s days. The wild animals ? the badgers who visit nightly for peanuts; the juvenile osprey who learned to fish on the estuary across the lane; the young jackdaw she nurtured until it was healthy enough to ignore her whenever she went into the garden; the cuckoos she discovered in flagrante one afternoon on a lockdown walk ? are the very heart of it.","brand":"Parthian Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43006527373373,"sku":"9781917140263","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781917140263_p0.jpg?v=1771687330","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781917140263","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}