{"product_id":"woman-alive-9781068661365","title":"Woman Alive","description":"\u003cp\u003eSusan Ertz was a popular novelist of the interwar years, best known for her novel Madame Claire, which was chosen as one of the first ten Penguin Books paperbacks in 1935; she also wrote In the Cool of the Day - later adapted into a film of the same name in 1963 - starring Jane Fonda and Angela Lansbury. However, one of her earlier titles - Woman Alive - is an important work in the canon of speculative fiction, until now largely forgotten among the works of her contemporaries such as George Orwell, H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoman Alive is set in 1985 and is at once a satire and a commentary on the rising threat of nationalism in 1930s Britain. The novel is cinematic in structure, conjuring a world in which feminisim and pacifism are woven together to tell the story of Stella - an accidental survivor who became queen of England and the hope of humankind. The relevance of this novel to 21st-century society is of course heightened post-Covid-19.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut at its heart it is a love story, a romance of sorts and a page-turner extraordinaire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Susan Ertz\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic science fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 Mar 2026 by Manderley Press Ltd.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Susan Ertz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57523838157178,"sku":"9781068661365","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781068661365.jpg?v=1793935386","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/nl\/products\/woman-alive-9781068661365","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}