{"product_id":"dreamland-2","title":"Dreamland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC DRAMA, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Lands, \u003c\/i\u003estarring Anna Friel, Connor Swindells, Clara Ruggard, Katerine Parkinson and Golda Rosheuvel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eChildren of Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYears and Years \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e, a postcard from a future Britain that’s closer than we think.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Evening Standard 'Best New Book' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ‘A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.’ \u003cb\u003eBrit Bennett, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Half\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Water courses through its pages, as rising sea levels heighten inequalities, buoy populist politicians and wash away every certainty of civilisation. But there’s also the novel’s prose – its liquid grace and glinting sparkle – and the sheer irresistibility of a narrative that sweeps along with a force that feels tidal in its pull.' \u003cb\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003e'You said that you would come back. You \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003elooked me in the eye and said that. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWell, if you had, this is what you would \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehave seen: soft wood, black cracks, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efridges in the road. The broken spines \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof old rides at Dreamland.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded ‘For Sale’ signs line the streets. The sea is higher – it’s higher everywhere – and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance, however, is just arriving. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Chance’s family is one of many offered a cash grant to move out of London - and so she, her mother Jas and brother JD relocate to the seaside, just as the country edges towards vertiginous change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In their new home, they find space and wide skies, a world away from the cramped bedsits they’ve lived in up until now. But challenges swiftly mount. JD’s business partner, Kole, has a violent, charismatic energy that whirlpools around him and threatens to draw in the whole family. And when Chance comes across Franky, a girl her age she has never seen before – well-spoken and wearing sunscreen – something catches in the air between them. Their fates are bound: a connection that is immediate, unshakeable, and, in a time when social divides have never cut sharper, dangerous.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Set in a future unsettlingly close to home, against a backdrop of soaring inequality and creeping political extremism, Rankin-Gee demonstrates, with cinematic pace and deep humanity, the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'She vividly captures the balance between ferocity and vulnerability as the two girls explore their burgeoning desire; one minute they’re greedy for each other, the next they’re proceeding more gingerly. \u003cb\u003eTheirs is a great first love, blazing bright and furious\u003c\/b\u003e amid the poverty and the pain, the perfect counterweight that’s needed to make the novel sing. \u003ci\u003eDreamland\u003c\/i\u003e brings us face-to-face with much of what we’re on the threshold of losing; nevertheless, it manages to convince us that its characters have everything still to live for.'  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003c\/b\u003eA great coming-of-age story, and a warning.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘This brutal read has moments of hope and love but also serves as a hideous warning to fight for what’s right’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Brilliantly bleak… this compelling novel is horribly plausible, chilling and feels like a warning that’s come too late.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mirror \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003c\/b\u003eChance’s life is filled with poverty, crime, drugs and fear – until she meets Franky, a girl unlike anyone else she knows. Their relationship brings light and love...' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Rankin-Gee’s novel is a triumph, being as much a love letter to the heady ups and crashing lows of youthful entanglements as it is a paean to the former grandeur of its stark coastal setting. Read this now.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGQ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A writer of a new time… A writer we will all want to read again and again.' \u003cb\u003eMonique Roffey, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of the\u003cb\u003e Costa Book of The Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mermaid of Black Conch \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Dazzling and shattering\" \u003cb\u003eNell Dunn\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eUp The Junction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTalking to Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'The writing clings like sand. Unexpected turns of phrase have burrowed deep into the recesses of my brain. She has created a vivid, textural portrait, teeming with life and granular, sensory detail as well as wisdom. It does what the most haunting of apocalyptic novels do, which is to shine a light on what is already happening around us and ask that we wake up.' \u003cb\u003eOlivia Sudjic\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Asylum Road \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Entrancing… A dark and devastating funhouse ride through curtailed innocence and apocalyptic experience. And- most uniquely- a love letter to the waning magic and melancholy of British seaside towns.  It is its own twist on the lucid dystopias of Diane Cook, Kirsten Roupenian and Emily St John Mandel. The book is also deeply cinematic- I was reminded, throughout, of Terry Gilliam's waterlogged neo-noir fantasy \u003ci\u003eTideland, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as the dreamy realism of the films of Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay.' \u003cb\u003eSharlene Teo, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003ePonti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Rankin-Gee is a visionary empath. Every page of this book both broke my heart and made me laugh out loud. What a feat!' \u003cb\u003eJac Jemc, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Grip of It\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFalse Bingo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57309654843774,"sku":"NW9781471193842","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781471193842.jpg?v=1778257967","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/dreamland-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}