{"product_id":"so-heres-our-leo-by-d-g-compton-paperback","title":"So Here's Our Leo, by D.G. Compton (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeo's mother, Madam Sara Bresson, wasn't good with babies. She never claimed to be. She had her Gift, her charisma, her successful career as a Spiritualist medium, and there simply wasn't room in her life for sleepless nights or soggy nappies. Therefore, with her husband (Leo's father Maurice Moon, a music hall conjuror and xylophone player) out of the picture having recently decamped, she donated Leo as soon as was decent to her widowed mother Clare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn agreeably wealthy woman, Clare had conveniently just returned from India following the alcohol-related death of her husband, a senior officer in the British army there. Clare welcomed a grandchild. It was good to be needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, today, eighty-odd years later, Leo is living again in the house in Cheltenham that his grandmother Clare bought all those years ago. And D. G. Compton, previously better known perhaps as a science fiction writer, has set himself a biographical task here, charting at least a few of the more significant vicissitudes, big and little, that have shaped Leo's nature and life, and have left us with this slightly wise (he hopes) old gent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildside Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43185035182289,"sku":"9781479472338","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/5981\/5377\/files\/9781479472338_FC.jpg?v=1784124680","url":"https:\/\/startlingstories.us\/products\/so-heres-our-leo-by-d-g-compton-paperback","provider":"Startling Stories","version":"1.0","type":"link"}