{"product_id":"gaining-ground-1","title":"Joan Barfoot: Gaining Ground [2026]","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I've never read a book so authentically frightening . . .  Beneath the radical disquiet is a beautiful hymn to the undeniable hearts and minds of women.'\u003cb\u003e Sarah Hall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I absolutely loved it: so thought-provoking and complex, but also full of moments of beauty and peace. Abra's dilemma electrified me. An extraordinary novel.\u003cb\u003e' Katherine May\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A joyful and generative novel about running away to make a new home for a new self.'\u003cb\u003e Sarah Moss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eI swear I loved them all, and I did the best I could. And then I left them, left all of it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbra has a perfect-seeming life as a wife and mother: until one day, she walks away, leaving only a note asking her family not to look for her.\u003cbr\u003eIn a woodland cabin, her new life alone begins. There are no mirrors, no clocks, no memories: just the squirrels breathing in the forest, and silence of vegetables growing.\u003cbr\u003eYears later, a young woman arrives, and the past-flashes begin. Daughter? A strange word. Is this her? And what will this mean?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRediscovered after almost half a century, Joan Barfoot's \u003ci\u003eGaining Ground \u003c\/i\u003e(1978) is a both a radical meditation on living on your own terms and an exquisite work of art. It calls to anybody who has ever wanted to escape - who has asked what it costs to be wild, to be sane, to be free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barfoot, Joan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53625502859603,"sku":"9780571399888","price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/barfoot-joan-joan-barfoot-gaining-ground-2026-9780571399888-1235115597.jpg?v=1777760857","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/gaining-ground-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}