{"product_id":"albion-9780241698433","title":"Albion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eEXPECTATION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Superb   Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama' Jonathan Coe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beautiful . . . As provocative as it is tender  Miranda Cowley Heller, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Palace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home   twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone   to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they ve built their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e The English country house novel reimagined for our times ... Exceptionally well-drawn  Claire Fuller, author of\u003ci\u003e Unsettled Ground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e A book that asks important questions about legacy   familial, historical and global   and which seeks to answer them with delicate insight and beautiful prose  Elizabeth Day\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Hauntingly beautiful . . . This is a novel I will return to again and again  Louisa Adjoa Parker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlbion\u003c\/i\u003e balances the reality of who the English were against the hope of who we might become  Richard Beard, author of\u003ci\u003e The Day That Went Missing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862514729303,"sku":"9780241698433","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241698433.jpg?v=1759917999","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/albion-9780241698433","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}