{"product_id":"ambush-at-still-lake-book-caroline-bird-9781800174122","title":"Ambush at Still Lake","description":"A Telegraph Book of the Year 2024  A Financial Times Poetry Book of the Year 2024   Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which a recurring dream is playing out: a world where mums impale themselves on pogo-sticks, serial killers rattle around in basements, baby monitors are haunted by someone else's baby and, through it all, love stays and stays like a stationary rollercoaster that turns out to be the scariest, most thrilling ride in the amusement park.   Her editor welcomed the book in these terms: 'It is bleak, repellent and hilarious in an American Psycho-ish way. Hectic and vivid.'   'Vegetable crisps.  The words yawn like a black hole,  sucking my eyes backwards  into my head until I see  my own brain glowing  like a radioactive cauliflower.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49751578837265,"sku":"NGR9781800174122","price":16.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49907745161489,"sku":"GOR013811600","price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1800174128.jpg?v=1756707786","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ambush-at-still-lake-book-caroline-bird-9781800174122","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}