{"product_id":"9780007301348","title":"King of the Badgers","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Hensher, Philip\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 1 March 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 448 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 197 x 29 | 318g\u003cp\u003eThe new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ‘The Northern Clemency’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. But behind closed, Georgian front doors and the within the artisan cheese shop, its residents live lives that are anything but.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When an 8-year-old girl goes missing from the estate on the fringes of the town, Hanmouth becomes the centre of national attention. Under the scrutiny of the investigation the extraordinary individual lives of the community are laid bare: the passions of a quiet international aid worker; a recently widowed old woman’s late discovery of sexual gratification; and a memorable party, held by the Bears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Through the apparent civility and spiralling paranoia a small town, Philip Hensher brings us another brilliantly funny and perfectly observed slice of contemporary English life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hensher, Philip","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666397302968,"sku":"9780007301348","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780007301348.jpg?v=1734743708","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780007301348","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}