{"product_id":"9780008142155","title":"All at Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Aitkenhead, Decca \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/01\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008142155,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don’t mind at all if you forget this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The important thing is that I don’t.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e On a hot still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Her four-year-old boy was paddling peacefully at the water’s edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son’s life – then drowned before her eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When Decca and Tony first met a decade earlier, they became the most improbable couple in London. She was an award-winning Guardian journalist, famous for interviewing leading politicians. He was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug-dealing and violence. No one thought the romance would last, but it did. Until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice, ALL AT SEA is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other’s lives and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697289461804,"sku":"9780008142155","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008142155_6e9034fb-1368-4f2a-af30-515e9799b27a.jpg?v=1759662151","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008142155","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}