{"product_id":"putney","title":"Putney","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Among the hottest books of this blazing summer' (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e): a bold, lushly written novel that will compel and disquiet in equal measure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 - CHOSEN BY THE\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew STATESMAN\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAND\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is the 1970s and Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house's colourful rooms and unruly garden flits nine-year-old Daphne - dark, teasing, slippery as mercury, more sprite than boy or girl. From the moment their worlds collide, Ralph is consumed by an obsession to make Daphne his.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut Ralph is twenty-five and Daphne is only a child, and even in the bohemian abandon of 1970s London their fast-burgeoning relationship must be kept a secret. It is not until years later that Daphne is forced to confront\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe truth of her own childhood - and an act of violence that has lain hidden for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePutney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a bold, thought-provoking novel about the moral lines we tread, the stories we tell ourselves and the memories that play themselves out again and again, like snatches of song.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clapping Pages","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45156920885434,"sku":"2OBSNB475-Used","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/5576\/0826\/files\/AZRAS.jpg?v=1758039794","url":"https:\/\/clappingpages.com\/products\/putney","provider":"Clapping Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}