{"product_id":"julia","title":"Newman Sandra: Julia [2023] paperback","description":"London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. Everyone likes Julia. A diligent member of the Junior Anti-Sex League (though she is secretly promiscuous) she knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive.\u003cbr\u003eBut Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department - a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith - when she sees him locking eyes with a superior from the Inner Party at the Two Minutes Hate. And when one day, finding herself walking toward Winston, she impulsively hands him a note - a potentially suicidal gesture - she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Newman, Sandra","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47903438897491,"sku":"XV81783789184","price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":47102142939475,"sku":"9781783789184","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":53644413501779,"sku":"XG81783789184","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/julia","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}