{"product_id":"the-inclination-tom-mcpherson-9781919305257","title":"The Inclination","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in West Berlin in the early 1970s, The Inclination follows a small group of artists preparing a play in a borrowed flat. Arnold directs. Michael observes. Nancy manages what cannot be named. Olivia performs. The work is provisional, careful, and tightly contained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs attention enters the room, nothing is explicitly forbidden. Instead, behaviour subtly shifts. Language tightens. Decisions narrow. What begins as a fragile experiment starts to account for itself. Efficiency replaces curiosity. Control disguises itself as care. The conditions that once made continuation possible begin to erode without force or confrontation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through quiet observation rather than drama, the novel traces a movement from rehearsal to exposure, from collapse to dispersal, and finally to departure. It is a study of pressure rather than conflict, examining how creative work thins not under censorship, but under scrutiny, and how endings arrive without spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpare, precise, and European in sensibility, The Inclination is a novel of rooms, gestures, silence, and proportion, about what happens when permission itself becomes the pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom McPherson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1919305254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919305257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Circle Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.69d","brand":"Tom McPherson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665003352319,"sku":"9781919305257","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-inclination-tom-mcpherson-9781919305257","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}