{"product_id":"throw-me-to-the-wolves","title":"Throw Me to the Wolves","description":"\u003cp\u003eCompulsively readable.New York Times Book Review  \"A significant literary achievement that also happens to be a terrific page-turner.\"- Jonathan Lee  \"Elegantly written  darkly entertaining.\"- John Banville  \"An extraordinary writer of great compassion . . . Stunning.\"- Denise Mina  In the aftermath of Brexit  the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames  and a neighbor  a retired teacher from Chapleton College  is arrested. An eccentric lonerintellectual  shy  a fastidious dresser with expensive tasteshe is the perfect candidate for a media monstering.  In custody he is interviewed by two detectives: the circumspect Ander  and his workaday foil  Gary. Ander is particularly watchful now  because the man across the table is someone he knowssomeone he hasnt seen in nearly thirty years. Determined to salvage the truth as ex-pupils and colleagues line up against the accused  he must face a story from decades back  from his own time as a Chapleton student  at the peak of anti-Irish sentiment.  With the momentum of classic crime fiction  Throw Me to the Wolves follows two mysteriesone unfolding in the media-saturated present  and the other bubbling up from the abusive past of the 1980s English school system. Beautifully written and psychologically acute  it is a novel about memory and childhood  prescient and piercingly funny  as wise as it is tragic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986164510773,"sku":"ByrdShop_1620401517","price":25.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781620401514.jpg?v=1770890029","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/throw-me-to-the-wolves","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}