{"product_id":"love-letters-on-the-river-9781917140263","title":"Love Letters on the River","description":"Includes a dozen black and white illustrations commissioned exclusively for this publication by acclaimed Welsh artist Guy Manning. From a young age Carly Holmes has been in thrall to the creatures that live around us. Her childhood companion was a blind gander called Beep Beep who thought she was his wife. She nearly postponed her wedding when a pair of wrens nested in a hole by her back door and cut it very fine to fledge their chicks into an assorted audience of cats and magpies. This collection of essays, beautifully illustrated throughout, are each of them love letters to the Teifi valley and to the river that winds through Carly's days. The wild animals ? the badgers who visit nightly for peanuts; the juvenile osprey who learned to fish on the estuary across the lane; the young jackdaw she nurtured until it was healthy enough to ignore her whenever she went into the garden; the cuckoos she discovered in flagrante one afternoon on a lockdown walk ? are the very heart of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Parthian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917140263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140","brand":"Carly Holmes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51990896050357,"sku":"9781917140263","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dc44a8f0-f8c2-4dac-993e-629eddac5945.jpg?v=1762838236","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/love-letters-on-the-river-9781917140263","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}