{"product_id":"9780008753849","title":"Things in Nature Merely Grow","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Yiyun Li\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 February 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 19mm | 176g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘The best book I have read this year’ DAVID NICHOLLS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Beautiful’ DOUGLAS STUART\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Extraordinary’ SARAH MOSS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A formidable testament to a mother’s love’ SARA COLLINS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘There is no good way to say this,’ Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There is no good way to say this – because words fall short. In this remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance, Li turns to thinking and searching for words that might hold a place for her son, James. Li does ‘the things that work’: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘To state that this courageous book is a testament to love is an understatement. One is left altered by it’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Unlike any other book I've read … an unforgettable monument to endurance’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A book that has not a single spare word in it … I loved it so much’ Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A meditation on living and radical acceptance’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A memoir unlike others, strange and profound and fiercely determined not to look away’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘One of the most astounding memoirs I have ever read’ Pandora Sykes, author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘I will return to it for the rest of my life’ Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard Devotional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A manifesto of living, not dying’ Sinéad Gleeson, The Week\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yiyun Li","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64839578812765,"sku":"9780008753849","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9780008753849.jpg?v=1780059235","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9780008753849","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}