{"product_id":"paradise-city-9781408855027","title":"Paradise City","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn audacious  compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers whose lives collide with far-reaching consequences.  Beatrice Kizza  a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love  flees to London. There  she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city  and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Yet self-doubt still snaps at his heels and his life is shadowed by the terrible loss that has shaken him to his foundations. Carol Hetherington  recently widowed  is living the quiet life in Wandsworth with her cat and The Jeremy Kyle Show for company. As she tries to come to terms with the absence her husband has left on the other side of the bed  she frets over her daughters prospects and wonders if shell ever be happy again. Esme Reade is a young journalist learning to muck-rake and doorstep in pursuit of the elusive scoop  even as she longs to find some greater meaning and leave her imprint on the world. Four strangers  each inhabitants of the same city  where the gulf between those who have too much and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when the glass that separates Howards and Beatrices worlds is shattered by an inexcusable act  they discover that the capital has connected them in ways they could never have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45657469943861,"sku":"ByrdShop_140885502X","price":23.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781408855027.jpg?v=1782041777","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/paradise-city-9781408855027","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}