{"product_id":"landfall","title":"Helen Gordon: Landfall [2012] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Jeffrey Eugenides's \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLandfall\u003c\/i\u003e is a clear-eyed, witty and warm debut novel by former \u003ci\u003eGranta \u003c\/i\u003eeditor Helen Gordon, that marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it's just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her, she finds herself reconnecting with a different landscape, a fraught and painful past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor everywhere Alice turns she finds traces of her sister, who went missing as a teenager. Can she stop her old life intruding on the present? Should she even try? What does Alice's new future look like?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An intriguing novel . . . a hipster version of Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eSurfacing'  Metro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A memorable novel.  I loved the pace and verve of Alice's voyage from Shoreditch to suburbia, and the unexpectedness of the story as it swerves past the familiar into a dangerous and beautiful unknown'  Helen Dunmore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Compulsively readable'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fine writing . . . wrapped in an arresting evocation of timelessness'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brooding and haunting'  \u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Uplifting, witty, wonderfully unsettling'  \u003ci\u003ePsychologies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beautifully descriptive, with a cliff-hanger finale'  \u003ci\u003eEasy Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Gordon was born in 1979 and grew up in Croydon. She currently lives in east London and is a former associate editor of\u003ci\u003e Granta\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. \u003ci\u003eLandfall\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gordon, Helen","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48122712686931,"sku":"XG80241954423","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gordon-helen-landfall-xg80241954423-55838410309971.jpg?v=1727053694","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/landfall","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}