{"product_id":"9781911344919","title":"No Season but the Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Leyser, Matilda, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 13\/04\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Scribe Publications,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Scribe Publications,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Myth \u0026amp; legend told as fiction\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781911344919\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eSpring and summer are my mother's time, autumn and winter are my husband's. What is left for me?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for nine thousand years, since the deal was struck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly and even the gods have lost control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Demeter tries to regain her powers and fend off her daughter's husband, who wants to drag his queen back underground for good, Persephone finally gets a taste of freedom, joining a group of protestors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsed to blinking up at the world from below, as she looks down on the earth for the very first time from the treetops with activist Snow, Persephone realises that there are choices she can make for herself. But what will these choices mean for her mother, her husband, and for the new shoots of life inside her?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo Season but the Summer takes a classic myth and turns it on its head, asking what will happen when our oldest stories fail us, when all the rules have changed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is, above all, a book about choice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstone's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44121623003373,"sku":"9781911344919","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781911344919.jpg?v=1686040942","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781911344919","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}