{"product_id":"9781471187353","title":"The Sweet Shop Owner","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Swift, Graham \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 11 July 2019 by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd (Scribner UK) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 196 x 25 | 308g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner For forty years, Willy Chapman has struck a strange but steadfast bargain between the two poles of his life: his beautiful but emotionally damaged wife and the sweet shop he runs on a south London high street. Devoted to each, he has maintained a delicate, precarious balance. Now, on a hot summer’s day, he attempts to settle his final accounts and reach an understanding with a third, disruptive element in his reckoning: his angry, unforgiving daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Spanning five decades and intricately exploring a doomed family triangle, Graham Swift’s first novel already shows the historical scope combined with intense intimacy that will characterise his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A marvellous first novel’ New Statesman‘Brilliantly chronicled’ The Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40968671264903,"sku":"9781471187353","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781471187353_e7686d95-c195-4cfb-97de-1c78dcfece55.jpg?v=1741633276","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781471187353","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}