{"product_id":"cygnet","title":"Cygnet","description":"WINNER OF THE WRITERS' GUILD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020\n\nELLE ONES TO WATCH 2019\n\n'Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in Cygnet' Blake Morrison\n\n'A bright new voice in literature' Bernardine Evaristo\n\n'Terribly moving' China Mieville\n\n'A beautiful book, a meander through the fluid anxiety of youth' Uzodinma Iweala\n\n'[A] potent debut . . . A strange, promising beginning' Observer \n\nThe Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island. \n\nSwan isn't just any island; it's home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed - an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind, and one they want rid of.\n\nCygnet is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of loneliness and depression, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and her own voice in a world that's crumbling around her.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39666590416981,"sku":"9780349700304N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/e6702346-f397-4a2a-8758-41dc92fdd35a.jpg?v=1644253247","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/cygnet","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}