{"product_id":"lovers-of-amherst-pb-w2","title":"William Nicholson: The Lovers of Amherst [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePassion and poetry: two love stories intertwine - a true historical one and an imagined contemporary one, both intimately connected with Emily Dickinson's life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1881 a young married couple, Mabel and David Todd, arrive in stuffy Amherst, Massachusetts. He will take up a post at Amherst College; she will embark on an affair that rocks the town. Emily Dickinson's brother is the College's Treasurer, Austin Dickinson, a respected citizen of the town and a married man with three children. Austin's sister Emily lives as a recluse in the house next-door to Austin. Over the months that follow the Todds' arrival, Austin falls passionately in love with Mabel, and she with him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the present day, Alice Dickinson, 24 years old, seeks to escape her copy-writing job and make a living as a screenwriter. She takes a short holiday to Amherst to research a screenplay on a story that has fascinated her since college days, where a love of Emily Dickinson's poems was triggered by the coincidence of her own surname.The story is the illicit love affair between Austin Dickinson and Mabel Todd.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she researches one love affair taking place under the watchful eye of Emily Dickinson, Alice embarks on a passionate liaison of her own, and the novel interweaves the stories of these two loves, illuminating both past and present in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicholson, William","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42325709848761,"sku":"9781848666504","price":12.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/nicholson-william-william-nicholson-the-lovers-of-amherst-2016-paperback-9781848666504-1161751005.jpg?v=1746903694","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/lovers-of-amherst-pb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}