{"product_id":"9781529959208","title":"What We Can Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): McEwan, Ian \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/06\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529959208,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The breathtaking Sunday Times bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Full of wisdom and heart. I loved it’ Elif Shafak‘A gripping page-turner’ Observer‘It gave me so much pleasure’ New York Times 2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2119: With the UK’s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those who survive are haunted by all that has been lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Metcalfe, a university scholar, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘What We Can Know may well have created a new genre’ Sunday Times‘Brilliantly plotted… In What We Can Know, the past is an irresistible riddle’ Washington Post‘Propulsive…entertaining and enjoyable’ Financial Times‘A dazzling novel’ Independent‘Haunting, playful and ultimately hopeful… A wonderful book’ Kaliane Bradley‘A poignant love letter to the vanishing past’ Guardian*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Spectator, New Yorker, i Paper and Barack Obama*\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57005427687797,"sku":"9781529959208","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529959208.jpg?v=1774692618","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529959208","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}