{"product_id":"9781784633462-poppyland","title":"Poppyland","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ccite\u003ePoppyland\u003c\/cite\u003e moves on from D.J. Taylor’s \u003ccite\u003eStewkey Blues\u003c\/cite\u003e (2022) to offer more pitch-perfect reportage from his native Norfolk, bringing together a succession of characters who are hanging on from the lives they lead, in an attempt to do for the world of Norwich, Cromer, Hunstanton and Bacton what Annie Proulx does for Wyoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn \u003ccite\u003eStewkey Blues\u003c\/cite\u003e: ‘In his solid, grounded, entertaining collection of stories, DJ Taylor draws out the mythical qualities of East Anglia’s terrain, urban or rural or somewhere marginal in between.’ —\u003cstrong\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the people in \u003ccite\u003ePoppyland\u003c\/cite\u003e are watching their lives begin to blur at the margins. From small-hours taxi offices, out-of-season holiday estates and flyblown market stalls, they sit observing an environment that seems to be moving steadily out of kilter, struggling to find agency, making compromises with a world that threatens to undermine them, and sometimes – but only sometimes – taking a decisive step that will change their destinies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55689232810358,"sku":"9781784633462","price":7.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38979725_dfb51aa4-66d2-47bb-bbbd-f92a8cc20b86.jpg?v=1765420016","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784633462-poppyland","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}