{"product_id":"doggerland","title":"Doggerland","description":"\u003cp\u003eDoggerland is brilliantly inventive, beautifully-crafted and superbly gripping debut novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival—set on an off-shore windfarm in the not-so-distant future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘His father’s breath had been loud in the small room. It had smelled smoky, or maybe more like dust. ‘I’ll get out,’ he’d said. ‘I’ll come back for you, ok?’ The boy remembered that; had always remembered it. And, for a time, he’d believed it too.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the North Sea, far from what remains of the coastline, a wind farm stretches for thousands of acres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Boy, who is no longer really a boy, and the Old Man, whose age is unguessable, are charged with its maintenance. They carry out their never-ending work as the waves roll, dragging strange shoals of flotsam through the turbine fields. Land is only a memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo too is the Boy’s father, who worked on the turbines before him, and disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe boy has been sent by the Company to take his place, but the question of where he went and why is one for which the Old Man will give no answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the Old Man dredges the sea for lost things, the Boy sifts for the truth of his missing father. Until one day, from the limitless water, a plan for escape emerges…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoggerland is a haunting and beautifully compelling story of loneliness and hope, nature and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ben Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46555194425541,"sku":"9780008313364","price":7.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/0480\/1477\/files\/9780008313364.jpg?v=1784311631","url":"https:\/\/www.bloominsallysusedbooks.com\/products\/doggerland","provider":"Bloomin’ Sally’s Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}