{"product_id":"9780008375034-who-they-was","title":"Who They Was","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Booker Prize 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003e‘A literary rendering of the\u003cem\u003e Top Boy \u003c\/em\u003egeneration… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth – or with such brutal honesty – as only lived experience can tell ’ Graeme Armstrong, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Young Team\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e’An astonishingly powerful book’\u003c\/strong\u003e Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Act of Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cem\u003eThis life is like being in an ocean. Some people keep swimming towards the bottom. Some people touch the bottom with one foot, or even both, and then push themselves off it to get back up to the top, where you can breathe. Others get to the bottom and decide they want to stay there. I don’t want to get to the bottom because I’m already drowning.\u003c\/em\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis is a story about what it’s like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to become men, growing up in the hidden war zones of big cities – and the girls trying to make it their own way.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis is a story of reputations made and lost, of violence and vengeance – and never counting the cost.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis is a story of concrete towers and blank eyed windows, of endless nights in police stations and prison cells, of brotherhood and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis is about the boredom, the rush, the despair, the fear and the hope.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis is about what’s left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536476184950,"sku":"9780008375034","price":8.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27944791.jpg?v=1774289061","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780008375034-who-they-was","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}