{"product_id":"fourth-shore","title":"Fourth Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Effortlessly enjoyable . . . an emotionally rewarding novel so succulent with detail that you can almost feel the Tripoli sand storms whipping across your face'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast, the ''lost'' territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager colonists to join her brother and his new wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiliana is sure she was on the brink of a great adventure, but what awaits her is not the Mediterranean idyll of cocktail parties, smart dances, dashing officers and romantic intrigues she had imagined. Instead she finds a world of persecution, violence, repression, corruption and deceptions both great and small. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA child of fascist Italy, blown about by the winds of fascism and Catholicism, Liliana becomes enmeshed in a dark liaison which has terrible consequences both for her and those she loves most. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Shore\u003c\/i\u003e is the engrossing and intensely poignant story of Liliana''s journey from Rome to Tripoli to a north London suburb where, as plain Lily Jones, she begins to uncover a secret she has buried so deeply that even she is far from certain what it is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eEarly One Morning\u003c\/i\u003e by Virginia Baily:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''As gripping as any thriller...really, really good'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A big, generous and absorbing piece of storytelling'' Samantha Harvey, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A real treat'' Philip Hensher, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Wonderful'' Tessa Hadley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316965319038,"sku":"NW9780708898529","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780708898529.jpg?v=1778720337","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/fourth-shore","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}