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A delightful entanglement of star-crossed lovers, gangsters and chase across tropical paradise, Mrs Gulliver is an entertaining escapade of two women forging their place in the world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55205847400821,"sku":"9781800815407","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800815407.jpg?v=1786027241"},{"product_id":"9780349117324","title":"Property","description":"WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah, a slave girl who may have been given to Manon as a wedding present from her aunt, whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie.   This private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest and bloody uprisings.  And if the attacks reach Manon's house, no one can be sure which way Sarah will turn . . .   Beautifully written, PROPERTY is an intricately told tale of both individual stories and of a country in a time of change, where ownership is at once everything and nothing, and where belonging, by contrast, is all.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286008934773,"sku":"9780349117324","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349117324_3007e935-f812-48be-b3cf-d1ab80da24bf.jpg?v=1786013848"},{"product_id":"9780349117812","title":"Mary Reilly","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of Orange Prize winning PROPERTY comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character: Mary is a survivor-scarred but still strong-familiar with evil, yet brimming with devotion and love. As a bond grows between Mary and her tortured employer, she is sent on errands to unsavory districts of London and entrusted with secrets she would rather not know. Unable to confront her hideous suspicions about Dr. Jekyll, Mary ultimately proves the lengths to which she'll go to protect him. Through her astute reflections, we hear the rest of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, and this familiar tale is made more terrifying than we remember it, more complex than we imagined possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286593614197,"sku":"9780349117812","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349117812_630c7041-7d00-4079-9447-423bca8a86bc.jpg?v=1786013869"},{"product_id":"9781781255544","title":"I Give It To You","description":"Jan Vidor seems like the ideal tenant for a long summer holiday in a Tuscan villa. Unobtrusive and quietly sociable, the American academic can be relied upon to entertain herself - but her aristocratic landlady Beatrice has made a terrible mistake.A chance remark about a violent death at Villa Chiara during the war piques Jan's writerly interest and sends her digging into the Salviati family's tragic past. Was Beatrice's uncle Sandro really mistaken for a partisan, or was his killer someone closer to home? Does it matter if Jan just fills in the gaps? After all, Beatrice said she could do as she liked with the story, she even said 'I give it to you' . . .Written with a deep understanding of loyalty and temptation, I Give It To You is a riveting novel about who owns a story, whether we have a right to what we inherit, and what a gift really means.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303404777845,"sku":"9781781255544","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781255544_bddb0807-a7e0-4648-8b72-916dc6cc13c4.jpg?v=1786025395"},{"product_id":"american-innocents","title":"American Innocents","description":"As two Americans holidaying in Europe, Frank and Janet's greatest fear is to look like tourists. They don't realise that there's more than first impressions to be afraid of. That worse than city rats lurk in the streets. That a single wrong turn in a strange new place can have disastrous consequences.   A suspenseful, captivating thriller across the cobbled stones of Rome and Edinburgh, American Innocents turns the dream vacation into every traveller's worst nightmare.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57613207208309,"sku":"9781806492176","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-valerie-martin.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}