{"product_id":"stranger-city-pb-w2","title":"STRANGER CITY PB W2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 `A superb piece of writing about London life. Past Wingate winners include Zadie Smith, Amos Oz and David Grossman' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[A] shimmering new novel . . . Grant's book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings' \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it's a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times' Suzi Feay, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eA Stranger City\u003c\/i\u003e feels like a very important novel for right now: no politically ponderous diatribe but a witty, sunlounger-accessible and deeply humanising story about people - about us - and the societal shipwreck we're stuck in' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS \u003ci\u003eBelfast\u003c\/i\u003e, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community.  A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways.  London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many.  The film-maker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they?  An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they?  The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grant Linda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44270112538914,"sku":"9780349010489","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/grant-linda-stranger-city-pb-w2-9780349010489-40279636148514.jpg?v=1673037176","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/stranger-city-pb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}