{"product_id":"flood-the","title":"Flood, The","description":"The book that began Ian Rankin''s phenomenal career.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The themes that would come to dominate the Rebus books are already here ... the blurred boundaries between good and evil; the pull of superstition and myth; the difficulties in escaping and resolving one''s past; the emotional complexities of the male of the species; and, not least, a good mystery'' TIME OUT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Miller had always been an outcast. Burnt in a chemical mix as a young girl, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, years later, she is a single mother, caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. Her son, Sandy, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search for happiness isn''t easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57658514768207,"sku":"9780752883694","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780752883694_1-flood-the.jpg?v=1778383299","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/flood-the","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}