{"product_id":"daughters-hardcover","title":"Daughters - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKirsty Capes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eDaisy Jones and the Six\u003c\/i\u003e, a funny\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, moving story of two sisters who embark on a road trip to protect the legacy of their artist mother, grappling with past secrets along the way\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Richly rewarding, stand-out fiction.\" ―Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Mattie and Nora's mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned Norwegian painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise she asked her daughters to make: \u003ci\u003eBurn it all. \u003c\/i\u003eThrow it all away. Ingrid didn't want any of her art sold, didn't want it celebrated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Two years later, Mattie hasn't done anything except for lock the pieces in a storage unit. She's barely seen Nora since Nora skipped their mother's funeral. Besides, she has her hands full raising the bold, creative teenage daughter she had when she was only a teenager herself. It was giving birth to Beanie that let her escape her mother's house--that and the support of Beanie's father, Gus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when Nora, an artist herself, falls deep into a mental health crisis of her own, she comes to live with Mattie and Beanie. And when their aunt Karo sets up the very last thing their mother ever would have wanted--an enormous retrospective of her work--the two of them somehow find themselves on the road trip of their lives: up the West Coast of the United States, with Beanie and their mother's ashes in tow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told partly in the form of the interviews that comprise Ingrid's biography, \u003ci\u003eDaughters\u003c\/i\u003e is tender, comic story of unpicking the scars of the past, and a must-read. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Every word has the touch of a genius.\" ―Benjamin\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eZephaniah, writer, dub poet, actor, musician, and professor of poetry and creative writing\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirsty Capes\u003c\/b\u003e works in marketing and lives in Slough with her golden retriever, Doug. She holds a PhD from Brunel University London; her thesis investigates representations of the care experience in contemporary Norwegian fiction. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eCareless\u003c\/i\u003e, was longlisted for the Women's Prize 2022. \u003ci\u003eDaughters\u003c\/i\u003e is her third novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.34 x 9.19 x 6.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264386384121,"sku":"9781419781070","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/tmDCYjbYLU9781419781070.webp?v=1768828587","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/daughters-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}