{ "item_title" : "Versions of a Man", "item_author" : [" James Burton "], "item_description" : "How well do we ever really know another person?Daniel Mercer looks like a man holding his life together. He turns up for work. He answers emails. He solves problems other people cannot. He helps colleagues find confidence they did not know they had. He remembers what his children need, makes people laugh and knows exactly what to say when someone else is struggling. From the outside, Daniel is functioning.What nobody sees is where he goes when the working day ends. His marriage is over. His family home is no longer his home. Money is tighter than anyone realises, pride prevents him from asking for help, and each evening Daniel returns to the one place where nobody expects him to explain himself. His car.For one ordinary working week, Daniel tries to maintain the version of himself everyone recognises while quietly navigating divorce, fatherhood, shame, friendship and the exhausting practicalities of having nowhere that quite feels like home. But Daniel's version of that week is only one version. His colleagues see something different. His oldest friend knows another Daniel entirely. His family carry their own memories, hurts and acts of kindness. And then there is the version seen by the reader.As familiar moments are viewed from different lives, small details begin to change meaning. A carrier bag. A toothbrush. A photograph. A plate of pasta. A handwritten note. Things that seemed insignificant become important, while moments that felt enormous to one person barely register for another. Gradually, the certainty of knowing Daniel begins to unravel.Because everyone knows a version of him. Nobody knows all of him. And Daniel does not know the complete stories of the people around him either.Versions of a Man is a compassionate, quietly funny and deeply human novel about the distance between how a life feels from the inside and how it looks from the outside.It is a story about masculinity and vulnerability, separation and parenthood, friendship and pride, and the strange ways people continue caring for one another even after relationships have changed.Above all, it is about the assumptions we make. About the colleague who seems fine. The friend who says they have everything under control. The former partner reduced to the role they played in our own hurt. The person sitting beside us whose private world we may never completely understand. Because a life can look ordinary and still contain a battle nobody else can see. And sometimes the people we think we know best are simply the versions we have been allowed to see.What we see is real. It just might not be the whole story.Versions of a Man: What We See, What We MissA novel about ordinary lives, hidden struggles, and the dangerous comfort of believing we know the whole story.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/06/684/308/1066843082_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.99", "online_price" : "24.99", "our_price" : "24.99", "club_price" : "24.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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