{"product_id":"9780008804800","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Valeria Luiselli\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 30 July 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e145 x 224 x 36mm | 474g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Mind-expanding and heart-expanding; A summer book for life’ ALI SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Dazzles on every page’ KATIE KITAMURA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘An astonishing book’ DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘I was utterly captivated’ KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, love and starting over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  All I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage. Their journey begins in Sicily during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, if you got the beginning wrong? The trip soon becomes a quest for origins – not just through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With her daughter leaving childhood behind and her mother beginning to show signs of dementia, the narrator finds herself at a crossroads. She must now ask herself: How do we situate ourselves deeply in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a family's memories made and what happens when they disappear?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A road novel, a mother-daughter story, a radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms, Beginning Middle End offers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A hottest book of the summer as seen in New York Times, Guardian, Elle, AnOther, New Yorker, Glossary, Town \u0026amp; Country, NPR and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘What sets Valeria Luiselli’s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness’ COLM TÓIBÍN, author of Long Island\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Bewitching … an affecting novel for anyone … seeking their own new beginning’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e FINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A beautiful, maybe perfect novel’ TOMMY ORANGE, author of Wandering Stars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Beautiful, funny and tender … I loved it’ EMMA HEALY, author of Sweat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Among the best books to read on holiday … beautiful and lyrically perfect’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGLOSSARY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Luiselli is one of the country's most gifted novelists’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e LOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Rich, lyrical and moving’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ANOTHER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A new literary form altogether’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e MONOCLE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘An instant classic, Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere’ SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of Fever Dream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘I loved spending time with the women in Beginning Middle End, who soon began to feel like friends’ OCTAVIA BRIGHT, author of This Ragged Grace\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valeria Luiselli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65544558870877,"sku":"9780008804800","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9780008804800.jpg?v=1786451021","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9780008804800","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}