{"product_id":"wivenhoe","title":"Wivenhoe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Compelling . . . this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential'' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose . . . Fisher indicts all of us yet still offers hope that we may change the ending of this story'' Olivia Sudjic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young man is found brutally murdered in the middle of the snowed-in village of Wivenhoe. Over his body stands another man, axe in hand. The gathered villagers must deal with the consequences of an act that no-one tried to stop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWIVENHOE is a haunting novel set in an alternate present, in a world that is slowly waking up to the fact that it is living through an environmental disaster. Taking place over twenty-four hours and told through the voices of a mother and her adult son, we see how one small community reacts to social breakdown and isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Fisher imagines a world, not unlike our own, struck down and on the edge of survival. Tense, poignant, and set against a dramatic landscape, WIVENHOE asks the question: if society as we know it is lost, what would we strive to save? At what point will we admit complicity in our own destruction?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306800390526,"sku":"NW9781472156426","price":9.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781472156426.jpg?v=1778651839","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/wivenhoe","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}