{"product_id":"a-stranger-city-9780349010489","title":"A Stranger City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant novel about the London of today - a shifting, exciting, dangerous place where people search for the meaning of home. Peopled with wonderful characters and, as is usual for this author, a provocative story about our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrant is superb on London life, which is at once atomised and seen as a web of unlikely connections\u003c\/b\u003e. However, as her by turns humorous and horrifying tale circles and deepens, her deft peeling back of the capital's layers raises increasingly unsettling questions about where all of us might be heading * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Stranger City\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea lush love letter to London\u003c\/b\u003e that asks questions about what cost Brexit will have on [Grant's] adopted city and its diverse inhabitants . . . the history and ideas about what makes a city tick tumble out of her pen, and she draws her characters with a realist's attention to detail * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e[A] shimmering new novel \u003c\/b\u003e. . . Grant's book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is a richness in this novel, found in a migrant experience that is deeply embedded rather than distinct from its environment\u003c\/b\u003e. Everyone has a complex heritage; even comfortable, integrated lives seem precarious . . . the real achievement of \u003ci\u003eA Stranger City\u003c\/i\u003e is the way in which its narrative is as fractured and uncertain as the London it portrays. And despite its contemporary relevance, the novel avoids becoming a \"state of the nation\" tract - it's far too emotionally intelligent for that. \u003cb\u003eIt's as much a novel of feelings as ideas, and this is what makes it a compelling read\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThe novel is fleet-footed . . . Londoners of all ages, backgrounds and hues throng the novel . . . The plot's seemingly haphazard quality mirrors the contingency of urban life but the way Grant makes even the minor characters flare into life gives the novel richness and depth.\u003cb\u003e A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it's a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThere's a Dickensian quality to the opening scene of Grant's seventh novel, yet it's one of the most bitingly contemporary publications of the year - \u003cb\u003ea shifting, polyphonic narrative that seamlessly braids terrorism, climate change, racism, social media and, of course, Brexit\u003c\/b\u003e * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eGrant conveys how these sentiments affect her individuals with insightful emotional accuracy * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book to whizz through breathlessly. And to laugh at\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003ci\u003eA Stranger City\u003c\/i\u003e feels like \u003cb\u003ea very important novel for right now\u003c\/b\u003e: no politically ponderous diatribe but a witty, sunlounger-accessible and deeply humanising story about people - about us - and the societal shipwreck we're stuck in * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e[A] stunning novel . . . Grant weaves together lots of intricate strands into \u003cb\u003ea meaningful, poignant tale about the loneliness and randomness of big-city life\u003c\/b\u003e * Good Housekeeping *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the great novels about London\u003c\/b\u003e. Unsparing about what makes it ugly, cold-hearted, fractured; but also a hymn of love, full of characters so generously, so compassionately portrayed. And, of course, it's beautifully written * Tom Holland *\u003cbr\u003eI really enjoyed \u003ci\u003eA Stranger City\u003c\/i\u003e, a book that begins with a body in the Thames and with a bold nod at Dickens's \u003ci\u003eOur Mutual Friend\u003c\/i\u003e. This is a dangerous London of bristling present and haunting future, in which nothing is quite as it seems and everyone has a past that may stretch tolerance or demand surveillance. It's \u003cb\u003ea gripping read\u003c\/b\u003e * Tablet *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733637804375,"sku":"9780349010489","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349010489.jpg?v=1720000963","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-stranger-city-9780349010489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}