{"product_id":"stan-and-nan","title":"Stan and Nan","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Sarah Lippett. Published by Jonathan Cape. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 96 pages, Colour, 2016. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSometimes, the simplest stories are the best... This is a lovely, tender book...\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStan and Nan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare all of our grandparents, their stability and infinite kindness much mourned as our ever-changing worlds spin frantically on.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Cooke,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy nan wrote me many letters back in 2011. They were about the love of her life, my grandad, Stanley Burndred. I’ve never met him, he died long before I was born, but his drawings, paintings and ceramics have been in my life for as long as I can remember. Every wall of Nan’s house would be decorated by his artworks and every windowsill bore his ceramic creations. Whenever we visited Nan in the Black Country I would study the ornaments and pictures, wondering who had made them. It wasn’t until I wrote to Nan many years later, receiving in return beautiful handwritten letters detailing his life, that it became apparent that the work was his.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe letters were so beautiful I felt my nan’s story had to be told. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStan and Nan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of an ordinary couple and the people who loved them. The narrative follows their lives from Stan’s working-class background, to his premature death, through to Nan’s struggle to cope, and the perils of ageing. It is a memoir about the importance of family, and about death, love, living and human connection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Cape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61938000429386,"sku":"stanandnan","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8894\/4822\/files\/IMG_81922.jpg?v=1780055142","url":"https:\/\/littledeercomics.ie\/products\/stan-and-nan","provider":"Little Deer Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}