{"product_id":"bad-relations-1","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":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54217757229400,"sku":"9780241537725","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241537725_5ef06971-7edf-44c4-b5ea-cc7a3bcf56c3.jpg?v=1764400521","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bad-relations-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}