{"product_id":"9781914613555","title":"One Fine Day : A Journey Through English Time","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Marchant, Ian \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEngland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 15 February 2024 by Duckworth Books (September Publishing) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 364 pages\u003cbr\u003e126 x 198 x 24 | 280g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day Ian Marchant decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant, had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. Diarist Thom - who liked a drink and a game of cards - feels recognisably Marchant to Ian. With immersive detail we learn about Thom's family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud; about beer, the wife's nights out, his own job troubles and their shared worries for their children. But as Ian digs deeper beyond the Sussex diary's bucolic portrait he discovers a subtext - a family descended from immigrants, with anti-establishment politics, who are struggling with illness, political instability and cash crises - just as their country does three centuries on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A unique and exhilarating exploration of time and love ... elegiac, consistently funny, deeply moving.'Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47509003862314,"sku":"9781914613555","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9781914613555.jpg?v=1773927468","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.live\/products\/9781914613555","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}