{"title":"Books by Jackie Carreira","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781789018936","title":"The Seventh Train","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Ingenious, great fun, and wholly original”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Fay Weldon CBE, on \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Train\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if you can’t stand where you are because there’s nothing there? What if you don’t want to end up anywhere else in case that’s empty too? When life has lost its road map, sometimes the only way to get back on track is to get back on the rails.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Seventh Train is a ride - a ‘road movie’ on the railways. It’s a journey that Elizabeth invented; the only original thought she has ever had in her previously uneventful life. Unbeknown to her, she is not travelling alone. If only she’d pretended that the spare seat was taken.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a wonderfully eclectic cast of characters, \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Train\u003c\/i\u003e takes its passengers on a journey from the tragic to the strange, arriving finally at hope. By turns heart-breaking, thought-provoking and hilarious, this tale is a life-affirming exploration of the human spirit via the British railway timetable!","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306712707445,"sku":"9781789018936","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781789018936_66dd23c7-e660-4ca3-8dd6-b397cf1e4771.jpg?v=1786027058"},{"product_id":"sleeping-through-war","title":"Sleeping Through War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet against the backdrop of real, world-changing events, these are thestories that are forgotten in the history books.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is \u003cb\u003e1968\u003c\/b\u003e and the world is changing forever. During the monthof May, students are rioting and workers are striking across the globe, civilrights are being fought and died for, nuclear bombs are being tested, there aremajor conflicts on every continent, and war is raging in Vietnam. Against thisvolatile background, three women strive to keep everything together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRose\u003c\/b\u003e must keep her dignity and compassion as a WestIndian nurse in East London. \u003cb\u003eAmalia\u003c\/b\u003e must keep hoping that her son can escape their seedylife in Lisbon. And \u003cb\u003eMrs Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e in Washington DC must keepwriting to her son in Vietnam. She has no-one else to talk to. Three differentwomen, three different countries, but all striving to survive - a courageousattitude that everybody can relate to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough \u003ci\u003eSleepingThrough War\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of fiction, this somewhat hidden history attemptsto humanise a few weeks in time that were so stuffed with monumental eventsthat it’s easy to forget the people involved. The author was a child in 1968and lived in London and Lisbon during the 1960s. She met women like these anddidn’t want their voices to go unheard into the future. Readers of both historyand literary fiction will enjoy this emotionally-vivid work that weaves fictioninto fact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57695304515957,"sku":"9781788038539","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788038539.jpg?v=1793033183"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jackie-carreira.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}