{"product_id":"the-flood-9780752883694","title":"The Flood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book that began Ian Rankin's phenomenal career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book that began Ian Rankin's phenomenal career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The themes that would come to dominate the Rebus books are already here ... the blurred boundaries between \u003cb\u003egood and evil\u003c\/b\u003e; the pull of superstition and myth; \u003cb\u003ethe difficulties in escaping and resolving one's past\u003c\/b\u003e; the emotional complexities of the male of the species; and, not least, a good \u003cb\u003emystery\u003c\/b\u003e' 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42978360918182,"sku":"9780752883694","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/the-flood-9780752883694-28938190356658.jpg?v=1656107189","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-flood-9780752883694","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}