{"product_id":"paradise-news-9780099554233","title":"Paradise News","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack''s dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate  accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtremely funny and sharply perceptive * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eThe poignant personal relations and the Hawaiian way of life are recorded with the sardonic perception of a latter-day Evelyn Waugh * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eFurther proof that Lodge is master of subtle scintillating satire * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eAmusing, accessible, intelligent * Financial Times *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017527034199,"sku":"9780099554233","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099554233.jpg?v=1750773839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/paradise-news-9780099554233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}