{"product_id":"woman-alive","title":"Woman Alive","description":"\u003cbr\u003eSusan Ertz was a popular novelist of the interwar years, best known for her novel \u003ci\u003eMadame Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, which was chosen as one of the first ten Penguin Books paperbacks in 1935; she also wrote \u003ci\u003eIn the Cool of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e - later adapted into a film of the same name in 1963 - starring Jane Fonda and Angela Lansbury.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, one of her earlier titles - \u003ci\u003eWoman Alive\u003c\/i\u003e - is an important work in the canon of speculative fiction, until now largely forgotten among the works of her contemporaries such as George Orwell, H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoman Alive\u003c\/i\u003e is set in 1985 and is at once a satire and a commentary on the rising threat of nationalism in 1930s Britain. The novel is cinematic in structure, conjuring a world in which feminisim and pacifism are woven together to tell the story of Stella - an accidental survivor who became queen of England and the hope of humankind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relevance of this novel to 21st-century society is of course heightened post-Covid-19. But at its heart it is a love story, a romance of sorts and a page-turner extraordinaire. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Manderley Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56191920963928,"sku":"9781068661365","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781068661365.jpg?v=1778292946","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/woman-alive","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}