{"product_id":"9780007355426_a-house-of-air","title":"A House of Air","description":"\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going online. Her warmth, humour and supreme storytelling abilities found their best forum here. Surprising, wonderfully funny, definitive, this is a major collection of Penelope Fitzgerald’s reviews, essays and autobiographical writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes pieces on contemporary novelists Giles Foden, Anne Enright, Carol Shields, Rose Tremain, Roddy Doyle; on classic writers Muriel Spark, A.E. Housman, Rose Macaulay, M.R. James, Stevie Smith, Dorothy L. Sayers; on remembering her grandfather E.H. Shepard; on her love of Devon and Spain and William Morris: on writers in their old age; and witty and poignant recollections of her schooldays, her life on a Thames barge, her childhood in Hampstead and the ghost who lived next door but one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a fantastically funny book – as much of an entertainment as the Kingsley Amis letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penelope Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47275068653717,"sku":"9780007355426","price":8.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007355426.png?v=1776776314","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007355426_a-house-of-air","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}