{"product_id":"pinecone-book-jenny-uglow-9780571269501","title":"The Pinecone","description":"In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England.  This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way.  Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let her imagination flower - there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. And everywhere there are pinecones, her signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth.  Sarah's story is also that of her radical family - friends of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers, the coming of the railways, the findings of geology and the fate of a young northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all, though, it is about the joy of making and the skill of local, unsung craftsmen.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524991295761,"sku":"GOR004614934","price":4.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49663483969809,"sku":"GOR005397666","price":4.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53394690703633,"sku":"GOR010597178","price":3.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571269508.jpg?v=1751040967","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/pinecone-book-jenny-uglow-9780571269501","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}