{"product_id":"tooting-idyll-val-warner-9781857543339","title":"Tooting Idyll","description":"This work includes two sequences, both set in London. The title poem in the collection focuses on a south London terraced house in Tooting Bec inhabited by two male lovers (one a C.O., the other to become a soldier) coping with the world in 1939 and the threat of war. In 1984 the same house is occupied by a man and a woman with an adopted child and another adoption fixed. The fate of the wartime lovers is implicit in the second part; the future of the 1980's couple is made explicit in the third, from the perspective of a female friend after the VE commemoration of 1995. \"Mary Chay\", the second sequence, focuses on a murder in Victoria, seen from many viewpoints (including those of the police, forensic laboratory staff, suspects, neighbors, witnesses, passers-by, a shop assistant, and a cross-dressing man who encounters the victim on her last day).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Val Warner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1857543335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781857543339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Val Warner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486205718783,"sku":"9781857543339","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ed02e72-2c5d-4fda-adec-2b5223413db3.jpg?v=1778054355","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tooting-idyll-val-warner-9781857543339","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}