{"product_id":"landfall-3","title":"Landfall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Jeffrey Eugenides's \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLandfall\u003c\/i\u003e is a clear-eyed, witty and warm debut novel by former \u003ci\u003eGranta \u003c\/i\u003eeditor Helen Gordon, that marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it's just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her, she finds herself reconnecting with a different landscape, a fraught and painful past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor everywhere Alice turns she finds traces of her sister, who went missing as a teenager. Can she stop her old life intruding on the present? Should she even try? What does Alice's new future look like?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An intriguing novel . . . a hipster version of Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eSurfacing'  Metro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A memorable novel.  I loved the pace and verve of Alice's voyage from Shoreditch to suburbia, and the unexpectedness of the story as it swerves past the familiar into a dangerous and beautiful unknown'  Helen Dunmore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Compulsively readable'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fine writing . . . wrapped in an arresting evocation of timelessness'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brooding and haunting'  \u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Uplifting, witty, wonderfully unsettling'  \u003ci\u003ePsychologies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beautifully descriptive, with a cliff-hanger finale'  \u003ci\u003eEasy Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Gordon was born in 1979 and grew up in Croydon. She currently lives in east London and is a former associate editor of\u003ci\u003e Granta\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. \u003ci\u003eLandfall\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221641089368,"sku":"9780241954423","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241954423_e9a5c869-1cce-4ccc-808a-881bc378d5ee.jpg?v=1764666021","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/landfall-3","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}