{"product_id":"bad-relations","title":"bad relations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TALE OF A TRAGEDY SEEPING THROUGH GENERATIONS, AND A FAMILY FRACTURED BY HISTORY AND DESIRE'Bad Relations is an amazing achievement and one of the most satisfying books you're likely to read this year' The Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Haunting and beautiful... In recent British fiction I can think\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eonly of Tessa Hadley who rivals Connolly in exacting such intricate, compelling drama from close-knit families... I don't often wish a book were longer, but this one I did' Observer\u003c\/b\u003eOn the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate through his family over the next two centuries.In the 1970s, William's descendants invite Stephen, a distant relation, to stay in their house in the English countryside - but their golden summer entanglements will end in a shocking fall from grace.Half a century later, a confrontation between the surviving members of the family will culminate in a terrible reckoning.\u003cb\u003e'The characters in Bad Relations are so brilliantly real, so wonderfully compelling at their best, and at their worst, that I can't get them out of my head. A wonderful novel' Nina Stibbe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is an Atonement-like novel about the messy stuff that is family life' Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A compelling family saga' Sunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"readers paradise","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51283088212315,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/4_51a21c6e-7801-4591-bff8-c86f136402fe.jpg?v=1757062533","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/bad-relations","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}