{"product_id":"a-city-of-strangers-9781447239789","title":"A City of Strangers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eA City of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning novelist Robert Barnard, acclaimed for his quick wit and astute insight into the vagaries of class distinction and human foible, achieves a new level of mastery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe also creates one of his most memorable characters ever: the dreadful Jack Phelan. Dirty, potbellied, vulgar, selfish, Jack is a man everyone loves to hate. And the rest of his family isn''t much better. The wife is slatternly, the teenaged children flirt with petty crime and prostitution, even the baby is unpleasant. Only twelve-year-old Michael Phelan seems to have escaped the family curse, and it may be just a question of time until he, too, sinks to the Phelan level.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years the infamous Phelans, known with equal horror to the Social Security office and the local school, have lived in slovenly squalor in their council house in the run-down Belfield Grove Estate in the northern English city of Sleate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Phelans'' infamy has even penetrated the middle-","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769775391063,"sku":"9781447239789","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447239789.jpg?v=1758722568","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-city-of-strangers-9781447239789","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}