{"product_id":"9781787335738","title":"What We Can Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): McEwan, Ian \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/09\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781787335738,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the finest writers alive' Sunday Times2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A true master' Daily Telegraph'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55674137379189,"sku":"9781787335738","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781787335738.jpg?v=1753435601","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781787335738","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}