{"product_id":"what-was-promised","title":"What Was Promised","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon in the aftermath of war: children run wild on East End bombsites,  while their elders strive for better lives in a country beggared by  victory. Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles  in search of prosperity, but find the Mother Country not at all as has  been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are strangers in a  strange land, struggling to belong even as they try to make sense of  their past; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take with both hands all that  the world owes them, wherever it leads them, whatever the cost. In the  street markets and tenements of Bethnal Green the three families live  and work together in uneasy harmony, until Michael shatters the balance  between them, his hunger for betterment changing the courses of all  their lives over decades and generations.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaching across forty years and capturing a city and a people in a time of tumultuous change, \u003ci\u003eWhat Was Promised\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking novel by a master storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32056313184339,"sku":"","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781408840924.jpg?v=1777252526","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/what-was-promised","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}