{"product_id":"9781529964394","title":"Beautyland","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Bertino, Marie-Helene \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27 March 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 23 | 238g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn’t feel at home on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘One of the best books I have read this year’ KALIANE BRADLEY, Guardian‘A perfect little polished garnet of a novel’ New York TimesBorn at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space, Adina is a baby of unusual perception. Tiny and jaundiced, she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognises she is different, not least because of her strange knowledge of a faraway planet. When a fax machine arrives at home, her suspicions are confirmed: it allows her to communicate with her extraterrestrial relatives, who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Adina makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and delights of their existence. Then, at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges her to share her observations with the world. Is there a chance there are others like her out there?Beautyland is a shyly joyful novel about real life on our planet, the challenge of knowing ourselves and the miracle of finding our people in this vast universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Beautyland is a miracle. I’ll be rereading it forever’ KAVEH AKBAR‘Beautiful and hilarious and transcendent . . . Bertino is an other-worldly talent’ TOMMY ORANGE‘A book that I will recommend to people for the rest of my life’ DAKOTA JOHNSON\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55064200905079,"sku":"9781529964394","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781529964394.jpg?v=1742918033","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781529964394","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}