{"product_id":"2940169252408","title":"The Lie of the Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize and move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMud, mice and quarrels are one thing - but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing, yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty, revenge, abuse and violence which will rise up to threaten them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country life, as both a Health Visitor and a sheep farmer's wife; and when Lottie's innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another.  At the end of their year, the lives of all will be changed for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA suspenseful black comedy, this is a rich, compassionate and enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside, and the potentially lethal interplay between money and marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaha Knight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104400785648,"sku":"2940169252408","price":26.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169252408_p0.jpg?v=1763676720","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169252408","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}