{"product_id":"the-offing-by-benjamin-myers-book-price-in-bangladesh","title":"The Offing by Benjamin Myers","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout The Offing by Benjamin Myers: A Beautiful Story of Friendship, Freedom, and the Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Second World War has ended, but its shadow still lies across England. Robert is expected to follow the men in his family into the coal mines. Before that future closes around him, he leaves home and starts walking. He crosses the northern land, sleeps outside, takes small jobs, and sees a world much wider than the streets he knows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNear Robin Hood’s Bay, he meets Dulcie Piper. She is older, bold, funny, well read, and happy to ignore many of the rules that guide other people. Her cottage looks over the sea. Around it are an untamed garden, good food, books, memories, and a hidden sadness. Robert plans to stay only a short time, but Dulcie slowly opens a door to a different kind of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA quiet book that leaves a deep mark\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany modern stories rush from one shock to the next. They can be exciting, but they do not always give readers time to know the people or feel the place. If you want a book that slows the world down without becoming empty, The Offing offers a warm answer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe plot grows through meals, work, walks, talks, sea swims, books, and the changing weather. These small events matter because Robert is learning how to see. Dulcie shows him that a life can hold more than hard work and duty. She gives him new food to taste, new words to read, and new ideas about love, art, travel, class, and freedom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story is calm, but it is never without purpose. A forgotten building and an old set of poems lead Robert toward the part of Dulcie’s past that she has tried to leave alone. What begins as a summer friendship becomes a story about grief, courage, and the way one person can help another face what hurts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeet a boy standing at the edge of his future\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert comes from a world shaped by coal. The mine gives families work, but it also sets the path for boys before they are old enough to choose. His walk is not a grand plan. It is a small act of escape from a future that seems to have been written for him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe begins with little money and limited knowledge of life beyond home. Yet he is observant, kind, able to work, and ready to wonder. As he travels, he notices fields, birds, trees, rain, animals, villages, and the open sky. The land wakes something inside him that daily life had kept quiet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert tells the story while looking back from old age. This gives the novel a soft sense of memory. The reader knows that this young boy will grow, but the heart of the book lies in learning how one meeting changed that growth. His older voice also gives weight to simple moments. He knows what they came to mean, even when his younger self does not.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDulcie is the person he never knew he needed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDulcie Piper is not a quiet guide who speaks only in neat lessons. She drinks, swears, laughs, cooks rich meals, shares strong views, and says what she thinks. She has known artists and writers. She has travelled, loved deeply, and lived by her own rules. To Robert, she seems to come from another world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir age gap is large, but their friendship feels natural because each gives something useful to the other. Robert works in the garden and repairs a small building on her land. Dulcie gives him food, shelter, books, and the belief that he can become more than the job waiting at home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe does not simply tell Robert what to think. She pushes him to notice what he likes, question what he has been taught, and choose a life with his eyes open. Robert also helps Dulcie. His steady presence brings care and movement back to parts of her home and heart that have been left closed for years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoetry becomes more than words on a page\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt first, Robert thinks poetry belongs to other people. It seems distant from coal dust, village life, and the work expected of him. Dulcie helps him see that poems can speak to anyone who has felt wonder, fear, love, anger, or loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis change is one of the most moving parts of the novel. Poetry does not appear as a school task. It becomes a way for Robert to understand feelings that he cannot yet name. It also connects him with Dulcie’s past and with Romy, a gifted poet whose story still lives in the cottage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn unpublished group of poems called The Offing becomes important to both Robert and Dulcie. Its discovery brings old pain into the light, but it also gives that pain a voice. Through this part of the story, the novel shows how art can hold a person’s thoughts after they are gone. Words cannot remove grief, yet they can help people meet it, share it, and carry it differently.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe land and sea feel alive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBenjamin Myers writes about nature with close care. The fields, wild plants, animals, cliffs, changing light, and cold sea are not only a pretty background. They shape Robert’s mind as he walks and learns. The open land gives him room to think beyond the narrow future he has been offered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFood is just as vivid. Dulcie’s meals show pleasure, plenty, and care after years marked by war and limits. Eating becomes a way of teaching Robert that life should not be only about getting through the day. Taste, rest, beauty, talk, and laughter also have value.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title points toward the far part of the sea that can still be seen from land. It is where water and sky seem to meet. That image fits Robert well. He stands between childhood and adult life, between the mining village behind him and a future he cannot yet see. Dulcie also stands between memory and healing. Both look toward something not fully known.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA post-war story filled with life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe novel takes place during the summer after the Second World War. Peace has returned, but people still carry loss, fear, tiredness, and the marks of conflict. Food and travel have been limited. Families have lost people. Old beliefs remain strong, while a younger generation is beginning to look for change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMyers lets this history sit inside daily life. He does not turn the novel into a long lesson about dates or battles. Instead, the war appears through memory, missing people, social class, damaged hopes, and Dulcie’s view of what hate can do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis makes the setting easy to feel. Robert’s wish to avoid the mine is personal, but it also speaks about how class can limit choice. Dulcie’s free life is joyful, yet her past shows the cost paid by people who did not fit the rules of their time. The novel holds these serious ideas gently, allowing them to grow through character and place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy readers remember this friendship\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert and Dulcie do not meet because they are alike. They meet by chance and remain close because they listen. Their bond crosses age, money, class, learning, and life experience. Neither person becomes a perfect hero. What matters is the care they give and the change they allow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Robert, the friendship creates a new picture of what his future might be. He learns that books and learning are not closed to working-class people. He begins to trust his own mind and desire. For Dulcie, Robert’s arrival brings a reason to return to memories she has hidden from and to honour a love that shaped her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book understands that a friend does not have to stay beside you forever to change you forever. Some people enter at the exact moment when we are ready to see a new path. Their words, meals, stories, and faith in us can continue working long after the season ends.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat this novel offers you\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Offing is historical literary fiction with a coming-of-age heart. It was first published in 2019 by Bloomsbury and later selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. It was also named among the books of the year by several UK reading and news groups.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReaders can expect:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA moving friendship between a teenage boy and an older woman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA post-war English setting shaped by fields, cliffs, villages, and sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRich but readable writing that gives nature, food, and weather real presence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA gentle mystery connected with Dulcie’s past and a hidden poetry manuscript.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClear themes of freedom, class, grief, love, art, memory, and personal choice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA complete standalone story with no series reading order to follow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA thoughtful ending that shows how one summer can guide an entire life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWho will enjoy reading it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt can work well for a weekend when you want to step away from noise. It is also a good holiday read, especially near the sea or countryside. Students of literature can explore its use of memory, class, landscape, and coming of age. Book clubs will find many points to discuss, including whether a person can choose a new future, how art keeps memory alive, and why friendship does not need people to be the same.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe novel may not suit someone seeking a thriller, romance-led plot, or action on every page. Its pace is gentle and its beauty lies in detail. Readers who give it time are rewarded with a warm, sad, hopeful story that can remain in the mind long after the last page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMade for slow and comfortable reading\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBookish Wonderland offers a premium edition designed for readers who want a book they can enjoy and keep. Crystal-clear printing makes the words sharp and easy to follow. Premium eye-soothing cream paper gives the pages a soft, calm look during longer reading. High-quality stitched and glue binding helps the book remain firm through regular use.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese details suit a novel that invites readers to pause, return to a line, and take in each picture of the land. The comfortable pages support quiet reading at home, in a café, during travel, or beside an open window on a rainy day. The strong binding also makes the copy suitable for a personal shelf, a book-club collection, or a thoughtful gift.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBest Sellers Rank of This Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e#69,890 in Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e#901 in Contemporary Literature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLet this quiet summer stay with you\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Offing is about the moment a young person learns that the future is not always fixed. It is also about an older person finding the courage to look back. Between them stand a cottage, a wild garden, good meals, cold water, lost poems, and a view across the sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you are checking The Offing by Benjamin Myers Book price in Bangladesh, visit the Bookish Wonderland product page for the current price before placing your order. Delivery is available inside Dhaka, outside Dhaka, and across the country. Cash on Delivery is available nationwide, and readers in Dhaka can ask about fast or urgent delivery when needed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChoose this book when you want a story that is gentle without being weak, sad without losing hope, and thoughtful without feeling like a lesson. Order your copy from Bookish Wonderland and walk with Robert toward a wider life. 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