{"product_id":"montague-terrace-9780224090629","title":"Montague Terrace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Montague Terrace, nothing is quite what is seems. Within its boundaries live an array of strange and extraordinary residents, including Paul Gregory, self-exiled pop crooner holed up in his Montague hovel for close to forty years, with only fading memories of a semi-successful music career and a bottle of JD for company. Mrs Beatrice Green, codename Babushka, an aged former special ops agent fighting a new war against overzealous council officials. Marvo the Magic Bunny and Mystical Marvin, a pair of down-on-their luck entertainers, shielding a disturbing past. The Puppeteer, toiling away day and night, pulling the strings of world events and causing chaos out of order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLandlocked sailors, fake pet psychics, hounded inventors and randy postmen. Welcome to \u003ci\u003eMontague Terrace...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the kind of comic that demands the reader pay close attention; clues and satirical in-jokes lurk in the corner of every frame. It’s also...a book you will want to start reading again almost as soon as you’ve finished… The Pleece brothers’ black and white drawings...have an energy that pulls you along. Their story gets under your skin. -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eConfidently written – and inked… It’s terrific dip-in-and-out-of entertainment. -- Larushka Ivan-Zadeh * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eIt’s anyone’s guess what the commissioning editors are smoking in the graphic novels department of Jonathan Cape, but when the results are this interesting, why inquire?... Total Lynchian disorder… What style! -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe Pleeces have fun with madness- both the ‘cap’ and the mental variety, with a deliberate muddying of the line between reality and the psychological. * Forbidden Planet *\u003cbr\u003eA bleak, if intermittently joyful, mix of social and magical realism, it offers a snapshot of 21st-century stupidity and selfishness. -- Colin Smith * Q Magazine *","brand":"Random House UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742161600855,"sku":"9780224090629","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780224090629.jpg?v=1758380894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/montague-terrace-9780224090629","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}