{"product_id":"ashton-hall","title":"Ashton Hall","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn American woman and her son stumble upon the dark history of a rambling English manor house in this \"masterful, riveting, and atmospheric\" (Alka Joshi, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Henna Artist\u003c\/i\u003e) novel from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Lauren Belfer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With vibrant prose, Lauren Belfer shepherds us through a centuries-old mystery and into a modern-day introspection on motherhood, marriage, and love.\"--Georgia Hunter, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWe Were the Lucky Ones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky finds the skeletal remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor, and Hannah is pulled into an all-consuming quest for answers, Nicky close by her side. Working from clues in centuries-old ledgers showing what the woman's household spent on everything from music to medicine; lists of books checked out of the library; and the troubling personal papers of the long-departed family, Hannah begins to recreate the Ashton Hall of the Elizabethan era in all its color and conflict. As the multilayered secrets of her own life begin to unravel, Hannah comes to realize that Ashton Hall's women before her had lives not so different from her own, and she confronts what mothers throughout history have had to do to secure their independence and protect their children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Infused with the brooding, gothic atmosphere of \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eRebecca\u003c\/i\u003e\" (Melanie Benjamin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Children's Blizzard\u003c\/i\u003e) and rich with female passion, strength, and ferocity across the ages, \u003ci\u003eAshton Hall\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that reveals how the most profound hauntings are within ourselves.","brand":"Lauren Belfer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42944507838691,"sku":"9780593359495","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/products\/9780593359495-us.jpg?v=1654612222","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/ashton-hall","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}