{"product_id":"when-we-were-rich","title":"When We Were Rich","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe brilliant new novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of the Water Strider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A sharp and very funny portrait of a brash era which is also a surprisingly tender take on flawed masculinity.’ \u003cb\u003eSarah Hughes\u003ci\u003e, i paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘What a terrific novel - wickedly sharp, wildly entertaining - I was gripped from start to finish. With its twisty plots and interwoven characters it paints a vivid portrait of a crucial decade. It's laugh-out-loud funny, too. And with property porn thrown in, what's not to like’ \u003cb\u003eDeborah Moggach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMillennium Eve\u003c\/b\u003e and six people gather on a London rooftop. Recently married, Frankie Blue watches with his wife, Veronica, as the sky above the Thames explodes into a kaleidoscope of light. His childhood companion, Colin, ineptly flirts with Roxy, an unlikely first date, while another old friend, Nodge, newly ‘out’, hides his insecurities from his waspish boyfriend.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e New Labour are at their zenith. The economy booms, awash with cheap credit. The arrival of the smartphone heralds the sudden and vast expansion of social media. Mass immigration from Eastern Europe leave many unsettled while religious extremism threatens violent conflict.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e An estate agent in a property boom, Frankie is focused simply on getting rich. But can he survive the coming crash? And what will become  of his friends - and his marriage - as they are scoured by the winds of change?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Rich\u003c\/i\u003e finds the characters introduced in \u003cb\u003eTim Lott's award-winning 1999 debut, \u003ci\u003eWhite City Blue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, struggling to make sense of a new era. \u003cb\u003eSad, shocking and often hilarious\u003c\/b\u003e, it is an \u003cb\u003eacutely observed\u003c\/b\u003e novel of all our lives, set during what was for some a golden time - and for others a nightmare, from which we are yet to wake up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Wickedly funny and deeply humane. I loved this book’ \u003cb\u003eSadie Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Tim Lott revisits the years between millennium fever and the financial crisis, and brings this already long-lost era back to life in a novel every bit as evocative and compelling as we would expect from this prodigiously gifted author’ \u003cb\u003eJonathan Coe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of the Water Strider:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'I was very moved by \u003ci\u003eThe Last Summer of the Water Strider\u003c\/i\u003e, which is both \u003cb\u003eexquisitely specific\u003c\/b\u003e to time and place and \u003cb\u003euniversal in its examination of humanity, grief\u003c\/b\u003e and the bizarre prisons that people build for themselves - and one another. \u003cb\u003eFunny, fascinating, mysterious and provocative' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSadie Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Outcast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Great storytelling and superb characterisation.\u003c\/b\u003e Very few writers can evoke quintessential Englishness in its myriad forms like Tim Lott. I loved it' \u003cb\u003eIrvine Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lott is excellent\u003c\/b\u003e when it comes to the psychology of a grieving adolescent' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317671305598,"sku":"NW9781471161582","price":10.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781471161582.jpg?v=1778722534","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/when-we-were-rich","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}