{"product_id":"9780860689690","title":"South Riding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of my favourite novels: a life-enhancing, twentieth-century masterpiece' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rich in humour and worldly insight'\u003ci\u003e INDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel that works beautifully on all sorts of levels, capturing the life of a whole community even as it offers us the passions, frustrations and tragedies of individual lives. . . I can't say enough good things about this book' SARAH WATERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Burton returns to South Riding as a fiery young headmistress, determined to make a difference for the girls in her care - like bright Lydia Holly, who dreams of a scholarship to escape her family's grinding poverty. But she finds a community teetering on the brink of change, torn between established traditions and new idealism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe must work with - and against - her new neighbours to fight her cause: Jo Astell, a socialist fighting poverty and his own tuberculosis; Mrs Beddows, the first woman Alderman of the district; the obsequious businessman Snaith; and brooding Robert Carne, a conservative landowner tormented by his disastrous marriage, to whom Sarah finds herself unwillingly drawn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinifred Holtby's greatest work is a panoramic evocation of a Yorkshire community between the wars: a rich and moving tapestry of lives, loves, sorrows and triumphs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis beautiful 90th anniversary edition contains a preface by Shirley Williams, an introduction by Marion Shaw and an epitaph by Vera Brittain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57379578577269,"sku":"9780860689690","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780860689690.jpg?v=1784804167","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780860689690","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}