{"product_id":"glass-houses","title":"Glass Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Desire, class and Welsh nationalism prove a combustible combination in this brooding literary romance'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''At once a love story and a simmering tale of class, identity, and masculinity'' \u003ci\u003ei paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Evokes North Wales in all its complexity, in water, resin and sky'' Jessica Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_______\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeth and Olwen live in different worlds. Olwen left North Wales for London to become a filmmaker and lives with her banker husband. Geth stayed in their rural hometown and works as a forester. They were in love once, but now they are strangers to each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is, until Olwen returns, moving into the lakeside house that Geth looks after for absent English owners; the house he has come to think of as his own. Before they know it, they find themselves pulled back together - back into the past and what could have been - or still could be. Taking us from the incendiary world of radical politics in Thatcher''s Britain to the housing crisis of the present day, \u003ci\u003eGlass Houses \u003c\/i\u003eis a story about love and friendship, about class and rural life, and about the disappointments of those who leave and those who stay.\u003cbr\u003e_______\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A beautiful novel about class, first love and how places can define us'' \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A cinematic page-turner'' \u003ci\u003eBuzz\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57399444963710,"sku":"NW9781472272287","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781472272287.jpg?v=1778599911","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/glass-houses","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}