{"product_id":"the-crossing-2","title":"The Crossing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of the Costa Book of the Year \u003cem\u003ePure\u003c\/em\u003e, a hynoptic, luminous exploration of buried grief and the mysterious workings of the heart.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShe is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This young woman who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs magnetic as she is inscrutable, Maud defies expectations and evades explanation - a daughter, girlfriend and mother who, in the wake of a tragedy, embarks on a dangerous voyage across the Atlantic, not knowing where it will lead...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy the Costa Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003ePure\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a viscerally honest, hypnotic portrait of modern love and motherhood, the lure of the sea and the ultimate unknowability of others. This pitch-perfect novel confirms Andrew Miller's position as one of the finest writers of his generation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndrew Miller's first novel, \u003cem\u003eIngenious Pain\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and greeted as the debut of an outstanding new writer. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was followed by \u003cem\u003eCasanova;\u003c\/em\u003e then \u003cem\u003eOxygen\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001; \u003cem\u003eThe Optimists\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eOne Morning Like a Bird\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2011, his sixth novel, \u003cem\u003ePure\u003c\/em\u003e, was published to great acclaim and went on to win the Costa Book of the Year Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sceptre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47260528967837,"sku":"9781444753523","price":69.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9781444753523.jpg?v=1759225950","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/the-crossing-2","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}