{"product_id":"groundwater-thomas-mcmullan-9781526678003","title":"Groundwater","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the winner of the Betty Trask Prize – an atmospheric and powerfully menacing story about family, secrets and violence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Complex and chilling\" — Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Masterful – uncanny and unsettling\" — Sophie Mackintosh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A disquieting study in estrangement\" — Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52182047326496,"sku":"9781526678003","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781526678003_3052272.jpg?v=1788799194","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/groundwater-thomas-mcmullan-9781526678003","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}