{"product_id":"dreamland-9781471193842","title":"Dreamland : SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC DRAMA","description":"\u003cp\u003eSOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC DRAMA, The Dream Lands, starring Anna Friel, Connor Swindells, Clara Ruggard, Katerine Parkinson and Golda Rosheuvel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Children of Men , Years and Years \u0026amp; Station Eleven , a postcard from a future Britain that’s closer than we think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Evening Standard 'Best New Book'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.’ Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Water courses through its pages, as rising sea levels heighten inequalities, buoy populist politicians and wash away every certainty of civilisation. But there’s also the novel’s prose – its liquid grace and glinting sparkle – and the sheer irresistibility of a narrative that sweeps along with a force that feels tidal in its pull.' The Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''You said that you would come back. You looked me in the eye and said that. Well, if you had, this is what you would have seen: soft wood, black cracks, fridges in the road. The broken spines of old rides at Dreamland.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded ‘For Sale’ signs line the streets. The sea is higher – it’s higher everywhere – and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance, however, is just arriving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChance’s family is one of many offered a cash grant to move out of London - and so she, her mother Jas and brother JD relocate to the seaside, just as the country edges towards vertiginous change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their new home, they find space and wide skies, a world away from the cramped bedsits they’ve lived in up until now. But challenges swiftly mount. JD’s business partner, Kole, has a violent, charismatic energy that whirlpools around him and threatens to draw in the whole family. And when Chance comes across Franky, a girl her age she has never seen before – well-spoken and wearing sunscreen – something catches in the air between them. Their fates are bound: a connection that is immediate, unshakeable, and, in a time when social divides have never cut sharper, dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a future unsettlingly close to home, against a backdrop of soaring inequality and creeping political extremism, Rankin-Gee demonstrates, with cinematic pace and deep humanity, the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Rosa Rankin-Gee\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Political \/ legal thriller, Science fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 May 2022 by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rosa Rankin-Gee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320595980666,"sku":"9781471193842","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781471193842.jpg?v=1790658728","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/dreamland-9781471193842","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}