{"product_id":"9781782276593","title":"The Wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003eMar�a and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of work and independence. Mar�a, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer, sending money back home for the daughter she hardly knows; Alicia, raised in prosperity until a family tragedy, now trapped in a poorly paid job and a cycle of banal infidelities. Their lives are marked by precarity, and by the haunting sense of how things might have been different.    Through a series of arresting vignettes, Elena Medel weaves together a broken family's story, stretching from the last years of Franco's dictatorship to mass feminist protests in contemporary Madrid. Audacious, intimate and shot through with razor-edged lyricism, The Wonders is a revelatory novel about the many ways that lives are shaped by class, history and feminism: about what has changed for working class women, and what has remained stubbornly the same.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45459776536797,"sku":"9781782276593","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781782276593.jpg?v=1720001698","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781782276593","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}