{"product_id":"on-trying-to-keep-still-isbn-9781844080168","title":"On Trying to Keep Still","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . . I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like' EMILIA CLARKE \u003c\/b\u003e(on \u003ci\u003eWhy Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sámi people of Lapland. Diski fails to keep still and, like the philosopher Montaigne, keeps a record of her ramblings both mental and physical hoping as he did in time to make her mind ashamed of itself.  Interspersed with ill-tempered descriptions of these trips are digressions on the subject of her sore foot; her childhood desire for 'a condition', thoughts about growing older, spiders, fundamentalism and the problems of keeping warm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44896993345765,"sku":"NP9781844080168","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_6b6e5f2b-378e-4d88-846d-250fe1ecd105.jpg?v=1773104307","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/on-trying-to-keep-still-isbn-9781844080168","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}