{"product_id":"bad-relations","title":"Bad Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TALE OF A TRAGEDY SEEPING THROUGH GENERATIONS, AND A FAMILY FRACTURED BY HISTORY AND DESIRE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003ci\u003eBad Relations\u003c\/i\u003e is an amazing achievement and one of the most satisfying books you''re likely to read this year'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Haunting and beautiful... In recent British fiction I can think\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eonly of Tessa Hadley who rivals Connolly in exacting such intricate, compelling drama from close-knit families... I don''t often wish a book were longer, but this one I did'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William''s experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate through his family over the next two centuries.\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1970s, William''s descendants invite Stephen, a distant relation, to stay in their house in the English countryside - but their golden summer entanglements will end in a shocking fall from grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHalf a century later, a confrontation between the surviving members of the family will culminate in a terrible reckoning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The characters in \u003ci\u003eBad Relations \u003c\/i\u003eare so brilliantly real, so wonderfully compelling at their best, and at their worst, that I can''t get them out of my head. A wonderful novel'' Nina Stibbe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This is an \u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e-like novel about the messy stuff that is family life'' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A compelling family saga''\u003ci\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312736149886,"sku":"NW9780241537725","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241537725.jpg?v=1778589445","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/bad-relations","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}