{"product_id":"haweswater-by-sarah-hall","title":"Haweswater by Sarah Hall","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe prizewinning debut from Britain's most exciting contemporary novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a remote dale in a northern English county, a centuries-old rural community has survived into the mid-1930s almost unchanged. But then Jack Liggett drives in from the city, the spokesman for a Manchester waterworks company with designs on the landscape for a vast new reservoir. The dale must be evacuated, flooded, devastated; its water pumped to the Midlands and its community left in ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiggett further compounds the village's problems when he begins a troubled affair with Janet Lightburn, a local woman of force and character who is driven to desperate measures in an attempt to save the valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in luminous prose, with an intuitive sense for period and place, Haweswater remembers a rural England that has been lost for many decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43570081890378,"sku":"6621k","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6621k.jpg?v=1778042860","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/haweswater-by-sarah-hall","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}