{"product_id":"book-ila8","title":"The Blackridge House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA quest is never what you expect it to be.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Madeline Martin spends her days in a retirement home in Cape Town, watching the pigeons and squirrels on the branches of a tree outside her window. Bedridden, her memory fading, she can recall her early childhood spent in a small wood-and-iron house in Blackridge on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg. Though she remembers the place in detail - dogs, a mango tree, a stream - she has no idea where exactly it is. 'My memory is full of blotches,' she tells her daughter Julia, 'like ink left about and knocked over.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia resolves to find the Blackridge house: with her mother unsettled, lonely and confused, would this, perhaps, bring some measure of closure? So begins a journey that traverses family history, forgotten documents, old photographs, and the maps that stake out a country's troubled past. Kind strangers, willing to assist in the search, lead to unexpected discoveries of ancestors and wars and lullabies. Folded into this quest are the tender conversations between a daughter and a mother who does not have long to live. Taken as one, \u003cem\u003eThe Blackridge House\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on belonging, on the stories we tell of home and family, on the precarious footprint of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49407956091184,"sku":"BDila8","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ila8-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773588755","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ila8","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}