{"title":"Susan Barker","description":"Susan Barker is the author of four books. Her third novel, The Incarnations,  was a New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book, a Kirkus Reviews' Top Ten Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. An excerpt from Old Soul won a Northern Writers' Award for Fiction in 2020, as well as funding from Arts Council England and The Society of Authors. Susan currently lives in Manchester, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.","products":[{"product_id":"old-soul-paperback","title":"Old Soul - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Historian \u003c\/i\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eUnder the Skin \u003c\/i\u003ein this searingly provocative literary horror novel about one woman's determination to stay alive at any terrifying cost\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they've both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the same beguiling woman no one has seen since. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing traces this mysterious person left behind, Jake travels from country to country gathering chilling testimonies from others who encountered her across the decades--a trail of shattered souls that eventually leads him to Theo, a dying sculptor in rural New Mexico, who knows the woman better than anyone--and might just hold the key to who, or what, she is. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart horror, part western, part thriller, \u003ci\u003e Old Soul\u003c\/i\u003e is a fearlessly bold and genre-defying tale about predation, morality and free will, and one man's quest to bring a centuries-long chain of human devastation to an end.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101197045983,"sku":"9780593718308","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Qz-BTONWgg9780593718308.webp?v=1781068450"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/susan-barker.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}