{"product_id":"9781804994498-plaything","title":"Plaything","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I just loved it – it truly wedged itself into my brain. Absolutely vile and brilliant. \u003ci\u003ePlaything\u003c\/i\u003e is an unhinged melody, and it will serenade fans of the darkest narratives.' \u003cb\u003eAlice Slater, author of \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Bookseller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. But when she falls for the beautiful, enigmatic Caden, her need to get under his skin, to truly know him becomes overpowering.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna’s new life in Cambridge is full of promise – she’s the top student in her PhD cohort, she has great friends and she has met an exhaustingly attractive man – but something is a little off. Perhaps it’s the routine violence of her lab work with animals, or maybe it’s something to do with her boyfriend’s icy reserve but it seems there is a kind of menace hiding beneath the Cambridge dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Anna and Caden's lives become tightly entangled, her obsession with Caden’s seemingly ever-present ex-girlfriend reaches a dangerous pitch… Just how far will she go to satiate her curiosity?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Pleasingly unpredictable'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gloriously tense tale of obsession'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One that will remain with me\u003c\/b\u003e . \u003cb\u003ethe final page made me shudder'\u003c\/b\u003e John Boyne, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A seductive tale of infatuation and the complexities of romance'\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Twigg, author of\u003ci\u003e Spoilt Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53594015498614,"sku":"9781804994498","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34751716.jpg?v=1749699060","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781804994498-plaything","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}