{"product_id":"wivenhoe-by-samuel-fisher","title":"Wivenhoe by Samuel Fisher","description":"\u003cp\u003eNever thought he would miss the mud: the gleaming, slickness of it. The slap and suck at the turning of the tide; its rich, bird-shit stink after a hot day and a couple of pints at the Rose. Or the green-blue-yellow hues that marked the changes in the light, as the days and seasons marched over the village and the river. And now, just snow. Endless snow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young man is found brutally murdered in the middle of the snowed-in village of Wivenhoe. Over his body stands another man, axe in hand. The gathered villagers must deal with the consequences of an act that no-one tried to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWIVENHOE is a haunting novel set in an alternate present, in a world that is slowly waking up to the fact that it is living through an environmental disaster. Taking place over twenty-four hours and told through the voices of a mother and her adult son, we see how one small community reacts to social breakdown and isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Fisher imagines a world, not unlike our own, struck down and on the edge of survival. Tense, poignant, and set against a dramatic landscape, WIVENHOE asks the question: if society as we know it is lost, what would we strive to save? At what point will we admit complicity in our own destruction?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43870643290186,"sku":"6903an","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6903an.jpg?v=1785386803","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/wivenhoe-by-samuel-fisher","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}