{"product_id":"9781526678003","title":"Groundwater : ‘Complex, chilling, masterful' Financial Times","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  McMullan, Thomas \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 13 August 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 x 21 | 216g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the winner of the Betty Trask Prize – an atmospheric and powerfully menacing story about family, secrets and violence‘Complex and chilling’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘Masterful – uncanny and unsettling’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH‘A disquieting study in estrangement’ IRISH TIMESJohn and Liz have left the city to move to a remote house on the shores of a lake. But along with the boxes, they have brought their trouble with them. They find the new house already haunted – by their old disappointments and longing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough the house is barely unpacked, Liz’s sister, with her children and husband, have come to visit. Over the course of a hot, slow week, tensions simmer; things go unsaid. And as outsiders descend on the house the atmosphere grows claustrophobic, the pressure near unbearable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs summer draws to a close, and their family is thrown into crisis, John and Liz must confront what it means to belong to a place – and to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What animates the novel is a series of tensions: between material stability and emotional turmoil; idealism and conformity; speech and silence; love in the abstract and love in practice; between a life and the life’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT‘A finely drawn portrait not only of a couple in crisis, but of a world on the verge of disaster … McMullan writes with a masterful naturalism’ FINANCIAL TIMES'A masterclass in apprehension, exposing the fissures between an imagined life and its reality with stealthy power, and boldly upending reader expectations. Richly unsettling’ DAILY MAIL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53381983732048,"sku":"9781526678003","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9781526678003.jpg?v=1786199330","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781526678003","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}