{"product_id":"dreaming-of-dead-people","title":"Dreaming of Dead People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2026 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US \u0026amp; Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 'middle of life' - although this is only thirty-six - and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once-dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes last. The idiosyncratic \u003cem\u003eDreaming of Dead People\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1979, yet remains as surprising as ever: it is frank, mordantly funny, true to itself and raw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 144 pages | Published August 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64958110794077,"sku":"9781916751316","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781916751316.jpg?v=1781205021","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/dreaming-of-dead-people","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}