{"product_id":"9781838303624","title":"Facing up to Father: The pleasures and pains of a Cotswold childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Farmers in my childhood were as anxious for a male heir as any Tudor monarch securing dynastic succession.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small Cotswold farm is the setting for a classic struggle of wills. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Worlock, eccentric and demanding, resolutely maintains the old ways, determined above all to make his son into a farmer fit to take over the family acres. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis son, David, is equally determined not to be bullied into something he neither wants nor likes. His childhood becomes a battleground: can he find a way to make his father love him without denying his right to determine his own life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes heart-rending, sometimes amusing, always elegantly written and deeply honest, this account of a young man finding himself in the most difficult of circumstances deserves to take its place among the great childhood memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marble Hill Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55401328935255,"sku":"9781838303624","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/14021063482842.jpg?v=1791872691","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/9781838303624","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}