{"product_id":"winter-garden-2","title":"Winter Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eMiddle-class, middle-aged, and middle-of-the-road lawyer Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womanizer. So when he tells his wife he’s going on a fishing holiday, she takes his word for it. But instead of leaving London for Scotland, he departs from Heathrow to Moscow. Douglas is tagging along with his mistress, a sculptor named Nina St. Clair, on a tour of Russia arranged by the Soviet Artists’ Union. Accompanying them on the trip are two other the impudent Bernard Douglas and the irritable Enid Dwyer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce in Moscow, Ashburner starts to wish he really had gone fishing. He promptly loses his luggage, the food is terrible, the art is horrific, and their tour guide is downright militant. But when Nina slips out to a last-minute lunch appointment and never returns, things go from bad to disastrous. Motives are unclear. Identities are mistaken. And as the group travels from the capital to Lenigrad to Tblisi, confusion, contradictions, and even hallucinations abound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRipe with the scathing wit, eccentric characters, and richly morbid atmosphere that have earned award-winning author Beryl Bainbridge both a cult following and mainstream praise, Winter Garden is a psychological thriller that turns an ironic lens on the social mores of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fontana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780006163589\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fontana","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £754.80","offer_id":47958408036529,"sku":"SB-0006163580-C3","price":754.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0006163580.jpg?v=1790049158","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/winter-garden-2","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}