{"product_id":"pinecone-hb-z44","title":"Jenny Uglow: PINECONE Z44 [2012] hardback","description":"In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England.  This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way.  Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let her imagination flower - there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. And everywhere there are pinecones, her signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah's story is also that of her radical family - friends of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers, the coming of the railways, the findings of geology and the fate of a young northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all, though, it is about the joy of making and the skill of local, unsung craftsmen.","brand":"Uglow, Jenny","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42042537869497,"sku":"9780571269501","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48977677156691,"sku":"XV80571269501","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/uglow-jenny-jenny-uglow-pinecone-z44-2012-hardback-57169979539795.jpg?v=1727186708","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/pinecone-hb-z44","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}