{"product_id":"9781804270226","title":"The Birthday Party - Laurent Mauvignier","description":"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing a nightmarish chain of events. ��Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a deft unravelling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.","brand":"Laurent Mauvignier","offers":[{"title":"504 pages \/ 18\/01\/2023 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57459209863543,"sku":"9781804270226","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781804270226.jpg?v=1789549471","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781804270226","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}