{"product_id":"outlying-islands-faber-plays-9780571217601","title":"Outlying Islands Faber Plays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, two young Cambridge ornithologists arrive on a remote, uninhabited Scottish island, sent by the government to survey the island''s birds. With them on the island are Kirk, the authoritarian leaseholder, and his niece Ellen, a young woman in love with the stars of silent comedy. Left alone on a scrap of land surrounded by the vast Atlantic, they observe each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetic, intense and gripping, \u003ci\u003eOutlying Islands\u003c\/i\u003e is a glimpse of an innocence, a way of seeing and a way of being young that is about to be destroyed forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutlying Islands\u003c\/i\u003e was premièred at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in July 2002 and transferred to the Royal Court, London in Autumn 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577369399639,"sku":"9780571217601","price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571217601.jpg?v=1746095115","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/outlying-islands-faber-plays-9780571217601","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}