{"product_id":"groundwater","title":"Groundwater","description":"By the winner of the Betty Trask Prize - an atmospheric and powerfully menacing story about family, secrets and violence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Complex and chilling' FINANCIAL TIMES\u003cbr\u003e'Masterful - uncanny and unsettling' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH\u003cbr\u003e'A disquieting study in estrangement' IRISH TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn and Liz have left the city to move to a remote house on the shores of a lake. But along with the boxes, they have brought their trouble with them. They find the new house already haunted - by their old disappointments and longing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough the house is barely unpacked, Liz's sister, with her children and husband, have come to visit. Over the course of a hot, slow week, tensions simmer; things go unsaid. And as outsiders descend on the house the atmosphere grows claustrophobic, the pressure near unbearable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs summer draws to a close, and their family is thrown into crisis, John and Liz must confront what it means to belong to a place - and to each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What animates the novel is a series of tensions: between material stability and emotional turmoil; idealism and conformity; speech and silence; love in the abstract and love in practice; between a life and the life' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A finely drawn portrait not only of a couple in crisis, but of a world on the verge of disaster . McMullan writes with a masterful naturalism' FINANCIAL TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterclass in apprehension, exposing the fissures between an imagined life and its reality with stealthy power, and boldly upending reader expectations. Richly unsettling' DAILY MAIL","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54343469269330,"sku":"9781526678003","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_f30588d2-19e1-42ba-a8e5-c8f9417cc489.jpg?v=1787317857","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/groundwater","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}