{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"The Daffodil Days","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/the-daffodil-days","description":"In the early 1960s, in a small town near Dartmoor, the church bells ring. The people of North Tawton go about their days, catching glimpses of one another\u0026#39;s lives.\n\nThere\u0026#39;s the local GP, who knows more about his patients than he would sometimes prefer. There\u0026#39;s the young shop assistant at Kestrels, who understands that the ladies who come there for a new outfit sometimes hope to find a new self. There\u0026#39;s the tenant farm labourer who rings the tower bells at the church three times a week, the notes - harmonious and clashing - rippling out across the rooftops of the town.\n\nAmid all these lives, a young couple move into focus. New to the town with their small daughter, they have escaped London for a quieter existence in the thatched house beside the church, Court Green. The life they intend to build here - out of fresh lino tiles, second-hand furniture painted with hearts and flowers, and expertly-cooked suppers for weekend guests - will be a good and happy one.\n\nThe Daffodil Days depicts a pivotal year in the marriage of 20th-century literature\u0026#39;s most infamous couple, witnessed by the people they lived among. It is a kaleidoscopic portrait of this enigmatic pair, refracted through the rich inner lives of a rural community caught - if only for a moment - in their light.","author_name":"Helen Bain","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/helen-bain","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/32753286/d8d2bd7837e6b9aa564df138f5642646af8be46d.jpeg","thumbnail_width":325,"thumbnail_height":500}