{"product_id":"statues-in-a-garden-isbn-9781640097803","title":"Statues in a Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eNever before available in the United States, this rediscovered masterpiece from Isabel Colegate, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shooting Party\u003c\/i\u003e, offers readers \"just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“I am afraid I have something to tell you . . . It is that we are all about to be destroyed.” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland. But all this means little to Cynthia Weston, the attractive wife of cabinet member Aylmer Weston, and her nephew by marriage, Philip. They are caught up in the charmed, perilous toils of a mutual passion that will destroy all they hold most dear—while the shadow of war lengthens and darkens, ready to swallow them whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA captivating portrait of a lost world, \u003ci\u003eStatues in a Garden\u003c\/i\u003e is a rediscovered masterpiece by one of the most important and neglected British female writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.“Colegate’s novels offer readers clear-eyed, illuminating windows onto this now bygone world . . . Colegate has no equal . . . In shining a light on the past, Colegate also illuminates the present.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable. I can think of no work of fiction that brings [this period] to life so fully and subtly.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Isabel Colegate is not afraid of ideas nor of using fiction to express them. In this rich and fascinating book, someone is hiding something—possibly everyone is.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eISABEL COLEGATE\u003c\/b\u003e was the acclaimed author of many bestselling books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Orlando Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStatues in a Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWinter Journey\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Shooting Party\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1980, was an international bestseller and the winner of the W. H. Smith Literary Award for the British book of the year. It was made into a celebrated motion picture starring James Mason, Edward Fox, and John Gielgud. Colegate lived near Bath, England, and died in 2023.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233582919909,"sku":"NP9781640097803","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640097803.jpg?v=1767737284","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/statues-in-a-garden-isbn-9781640097803","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}