{"product_id":"9780241574690","title":"Claudine's House","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Colette \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27 August 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 11 | 134g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColette's irresistible depiction of a childhood in rural France, in a lush new translation ‘I will never be able to help anyone imagine the splendour, bound up in my memories’Claudine lives in a large house with a rose-filled garden and a vegetable patch smelling of tomato leaves and apricots. Beyond it is the village, where travelling performers stop for the night and wedding feasts take place under a bright summer moon. Inside her house are Mama, who loves animals, Papa, who lost his leg in the war, and a library full of irresistible books. Based on Colette’s own early life, Claudine’s House is a vivid, enchanting depiction of childhood, memory and the passing of time in late-nineteenth-century France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France’ New York Times Book ReviewTranslated with an Introduction by Belinda Jack\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55665558126968,"sku":"9780241574690","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9780241574690.jpg?v=1789735210","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780241574690","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}