{"product_id":"optimists-andrew-miller-9780340825136","title":"Optimists","description":"⭐ Out now: The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ⭐\nThe Optimists: in a world full of suffering, how can we have faith in humanity, or the future?\n 'Exceptional'\nSunday Times\n'Powerful and lively'\nFinancial Times\n'A delight'\nTime Out\nClem Glass, a photojournalist, returns from Africa to London convinced there is no hope for mankind. \nYet after his sister falls ill and he takes her back to the West Country of their childhood, he cannot ignore the decency and kindness he encounters, or the pulse of goodness in his own heart. \nWhen news comes offering Clem the chance to confront the author of his nightmares, he must choose what sort of man to be.\nPraise for Andrew Miller\n'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight' Hilary Mantel\n'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind' Sunday Times\n'One of the best writers at work today' Telegraph\n'A wonderful storyteller' Spectator\n'One of those rare novelists who can rock up in any time and place and convincingly inhabit that particular historical moment' The Times","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51650823061792,"sku":"9780340825136","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780340825136.jpg?v=1785292437","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/optimists-andrew-miller-9780340825136","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}