{"product_id":"a-stranger-city-9780349010489b","title":"A Stranger City","description":"When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eA policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe film-maker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Virago Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42819491037264,"sku":"9780349010489B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780349010489-l.jpg?v=1785876139","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/a-stranger-city-9780349010489b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}