{"product_id":"to-battersea-park-by-philip-hensher","title":"To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher","description":"\u003cspan\u003e The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. The imagination reaches out, and makes sense of the world. By the sea, two men walk into a future of uncertain violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is time now to see the human dramas within a hundred yards (an abduction, a quiet breakdown, an outbreak of violence, a young mind beginning to stretch itself); to wait for the weather to change; to understand that what lies underneath this part of the city are seasonally wet pastures and woodlands. Written in four parts, To Battersea Park explores the strata and sediment of a single place and time. It shows what brings us together, through love, through the clashes of what we want to do and what the world wants to do with us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in a large crowded city where we are forbidden to approach strangers, this is about what we share: humanity, imagination, and the love that emerges from many acts of telling. 'Electrifying ... works like this...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eallow the imagination to roam free and wild' Observer 'An engrossing human drama' The Times 'Playful, philosophical, sensual, violent and funny ... But above all, it's defiant: an account of confinement that refuses to be confined' Literary Review 'An utterly engrossing skein of narratives, beautifully written and often disturbing' Lissa Evans, author of V for Victory 'What a writer he is!' Philip Pullman, author of The Book of Dust\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038145040660,"sku":"ehi1789771581400","price":11.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/to-battersea-park-by-philip-hensher_1.jpg?v=1789771584","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/to-battersea-park-by-philip-hensher","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}