{"product_id":"lie-of-the-land-9780349142685","title":"Lie of the Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A very good read indeed'\u003c\/b\u003e MATT HAIG\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny'\u003c\/b\u003e INDIA KNIGHT\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years'\u003c\/b\u003e SARAH PERRY\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'One of the most brilliant and entertaining novelists'\u003c\/b\u003e ALISON LURIE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize and move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mud, mice and quarrels are one thing - but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing, yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty, revenge, abuse and violence which will rise up to threaten them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country life, as both a Health Visitor and a sheep farmer's wife; and when Lottie's innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another. At the end of their year, the lives of all will be changed for ever.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A suspenseful black comedy, this is a rich, compassionate and enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside, and the potentially lethal interplay between money and marriage.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amanda Craig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50932072972630,"sku":"9780349142685","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9780349142685.jpg?v=1753865626","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.fi\/products\/lie-of-the-land-9780349142685","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}