{"product_id":"the-housekeeper-and-the-professor","title":"The Housekeeper and the Professor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yoko Ogawa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44345321750785,"sku":"9781784875442","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2024-02-16T165837.500.png?v=1708102743","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-housekeeper-and-the-professor","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}