{"product_id":"9781914613463","title":"The Long Delirious Burning Blue","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHE FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR\r\nOF WORD-OF-MOUTH BESTSELLER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIF\r\nWOMEN ROSE ROOTED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eYou and me against the\r\nworld\u003c\/i\u003e, you used to sing. In the days before it became you and me against\r\neach other.’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCat Munro – who has never taken\r\na day off in her working life – quits her corporate job and starts flying\r\nlessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not only\r\nof death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish village\r\nwhere she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat’s abusive father. Though\r\nthey are apart, the past connects mother and daughter, haunts them, binds them.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFrom the excoriating heat of\r\nthe Arizona desert to the misty flow of a Highland sea-loch, Sharon Blackie’s\r\nsoaring first novel presents us with the transformative power of landscape, and\r\nof storytelling, in women’s lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAbove all, \u003ci\u003eThe Long\r\nDelirious Burning Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of courage, endurance and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘It is\r\nthat rarity, a first novel that smacks of not merely confidence, but authority\r\n... \u003cspan\u003eThe ending is powerful,\r\nfilmic, and achieving the kind of symmetry that novels often aspire to, but\r\nrarely reach.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sharon Blackie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46884547657782,"sku":"9781914613463","price":26.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0696\/2026\/9110\/files\/BNCImageAPI_47e8e68b-8ebd-4be8-812d-ed70bb7934a4.jpg?v=1784047828","url":"https:\/\/shopsaturdaymorning.ca\/products\/9781914613463","provider":"Saturday Morning","version":"1.0","type":"link"}