{"product_id":"1576973","title":"The Flood by Ian Rankin","description":"Mary Miller had always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn - a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community.Now, years later she is hardly less alone. She is the mother of a bastardson, Sandy, and caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. Sandy,meanwhile, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search forhappiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret fromtheir past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are beingplayed out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols andflickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.The Flood is both a coming-of-age novel and an amazing portrait of atime and place. Dark, atmospheric and powerful, it is a remarkable debutfrom a remarkable author. This 2006 Orion Paperback is in \u003cb\u003e good condition\u003c\/b\u003e. Shop stamp on title page. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780752880945 SKU: 1576973 \u003ci\u003eNote: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48791902748949,"sku":"1576973","price":15.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/2695\/4036\/files\/1576973.jpg?v=1740113340","url":"https:\/\/bookhaven.live\/products\/1576973","provider":"Book Haven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}