{"product_id":"sun-country-9781526691606","title":"Sun Country : Writing My Way Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e'One of Britain's most distinctive and trustworthy voices ... A beautiful book' TIM WINTON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A book to lose yourself inside, and emerge from with enhanced clarity and wisdom' FRANCES WILSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Tender and unflinching ... A masterclass in clarity and feeling' JIM CRACE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Cunnell writes with so much sensitivity to the sacredness of the everyday' SARA BAUME\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautifully written, courageous and deeply moving journey from sorrow to acceptance, from loss to hope, shimmering with coastal light and hard-won wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Sun Country , Howard Cunnell returns to the southern England beachlands of his boyhood after the death of his mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA love letter to the changing coast and sea, Sun Country is a book alive with light and shadow, where the white spaces between words are as charged with tension and power as the words themselves. It is a reckoning with the things we inherit – silence and absence, stories told and untold – and the transgression involved in turning a life into art. At the heart of the book is Gillian, his devoted single mother, and the small yet unforgettable details of her life that are woven into a powerful meditation on impermanence, grief, class and solitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once intimate and expansive, this luminous memoir traces one man’s journey from loss back towards life. Through stories about the writers and painters with whom he feels a kinship – including the English Romantics, W. H. Hudson and Agnes Martin – and the history of his own Sussex working-class family, Cunnell writes his way home to a place, to a culture and to himself as an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCunnell’s descriptive power, so widely praised in his first memoir, reaches a new breathtaking level, with the simplicity that only comes from the finest craft and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Howard Cunnell\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs, Fiction: special features\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 Jun 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Howard Cunnell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320577433978,"sku":"9781526691606","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781526691606.jpg?v=1790658218","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/sun-country-9781526691606","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}