{"product_id":"groundwater-9781526678003","title":"Groundwater: ‘Complex, chilling, masterful' Financial Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;By the winner of the Betty Trask Prize – an atmospheric and powerfully menacing story about family, secrets and violence\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;‘Complex and chilling’ \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;FINANCIAL TIMES\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;‘Masterful – uncanny and unsettling’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;‘A disquieting study in estrangement’ \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;IRISH TIMES\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;John 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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Though 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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;As 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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;''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’ \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;‘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\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;’ FINANCIAL TIMES\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;''A masterclass in apprehension, exposing the fissures between an imagined life and its reality with stealthy power, and boldly upending reader expectations. Richly unsettling’ \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;DAILY MAIL\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781526678003\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas McMullan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50077587570938,"sku":"9781526678003","price":7.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9781526678003.jpg?v=1786799945","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/groundwater-9781526678003","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}