{"product_id":"9780008619176","title":"The Tap Dancer","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Barrow, Andrew \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 20 July 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperCollins) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 199 x 18 | 170g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘My favourite novel and one I wish I’d written.’ ALAN BENNETT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don’t they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love of music halls and metropolitan life. If only people would listen and do as they were told…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e His fourth son William, the long-suffering narrator, is the constant butt of his father’s jokes and victim of his brothers’ indifference. But as death, divorce and other darker dramas follow, father and son slowly establish a strange harmony.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49711610462544,"sku":"9780008619176","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9780008619176.jpg?v=1738085972","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780008619176","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}