{"product_id":"sophie-standing-there-meg-mason-pre-order","title":"Sophie, Standing There - Meg Mason PRE-ORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDUE IN STORE LATE JULY. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSophie Pattison is such a lovely person. Warm, kind, amazingly positive. She works as a freelance sound technician for literary festivals. She is a massive reader and was recently forced to move house. She is bracingly lonely.\u003cstrong\u003e*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSo much so, the absence of others feels like a physical weight, if that makes sense. But then Sophie discovers an author through work, and comes to adore her. Her books, interviews and podcasts, her wisdom and brilliance, her beautiful words. It's like solace and company. It's almost like love. And Sophie would love to meet her, although she never will, obviously. The author would never come to her festival. She's too famous for that. Too brilliant, too beautiful. And in a way, thank goodness, because that would change everything. Sophie's entire life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut ... what if she did?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ealthough she has a best friend called Emma, and an amazing brother. And a husband. But a number of things happened there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSophie, Standing There\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A moving examination of what it means to be alone in the world, and what it means to find connection. It is, by turns, heartbreaking, hilarious and deeply hopeful. Meg Mason is a dazzling talent' Ann Patchett, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Sophie, Standing There\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eunfolds like a strange origami crane in reverse – so achingly tender and so brilliantly subtle that I could never put it down. The loneliness of our inner world and the quiet movement towards connection – nobody evokes it as breathtakingly as Meg Mason. And by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eit\u003c\/em\u003e, I guess I mean simply being a person. Dazzling' Catherine Newman, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWreck\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e352 pages \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-7d498d3a=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EmmasatOxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48208596697242,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/9024\/8009\/files\/sophie-standing-there-9781460760666.jpg?v=1780701477","url":"https:\/\/emmasatoxford.com\/products\/sophie-standing-there-meg-mason-pre-order","provider":"EmmasatOxford","version":"1.0","type":"link"}