{"product_id":"9781526623157","title":"The Kingdoms","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWNLONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVELFor fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes a sweeping historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street'Original, joyous and horrifying, The Kingdoms is an awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion which had me in tears by the end' - Catriona WardCome home, if you rememberThe postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse �_\" Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides.   Joe has never left England, never even left London. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job, a wife, a baby daughter.   But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed �_\" a world where English is spoken in England, and not French.   And now he has a postcard of a lighthouse built just six months ago, that was first written nearly one hundred years ago, by a stranger who seems to know him very well.     Joe�_Ts journey to unravel the truth will take him from French-occupied London to a remote Scottish island, and back through time itself as he battles for his life �_\" and for a very different future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45457771561181,"sku":"9781526623157","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781526623157.jpg?v=1719935791","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781526623157","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}