{"product_id":"the-deptford-trilogy-9780241952627","title":"The Deptford Trilogy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay, intended victim of the snowball, who, fatefully, ducks; his ''lifelong friend and enemy'' Percy Boyd Staunton, angered by their recent quarrel, who hurls the snowball; and Paul Dempster, prematurely born when his pregnant mother is struck by Percy''s icy missile. Tracing the rich and varied lives of these three individuals, \u003ci\u003eThe Deptford Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e lures the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic in one of the most beguiling, clever and cunning trilogies ever written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eDavies' books will be recognized with the very best works of the twentieth century * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great modern novelists -- Malcolm Bradbury\u003cbr\u003eA mature and wise writer -- Anthony Burgess\u003cbr\u003eThick and rich with humour, character and incident * Observer *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733368090967,"sku":"9780241952627","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241952627.jpg?v=1719999949","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-deptford-trilogy-9780241952627","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}