{"product_id":"a-stranger-city","title":"A Stranger City","description":"WINNER OF THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 `A superb piece of writing about London life. Past Wingate winners include Zadie Smith, Amos Oz and David Grossman' \n\n'[A] shimmering new novel . . . Grant's book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings' The Economist\n\n'A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it's a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times' Suzi Feay, Financial Times\n\n'A Stranger City feels like a very important novel for right now: no politically ponderous diatribe but a witty, sunlounger-accessible and deeply humanising story about people - about us - and the societal shipwreck we're stuck in' Evening Standard\n\nWhen a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community.  A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways.  London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many.  The film-maker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they?  An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they?  The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39660738347093,"sku":"9780349010489N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9ebbd51f-0792-45c9-babc-27cb25909745.jpg?v=1644277720","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/a-stranger-city","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}