{"product_id":"the-wild-island-9780393331899","title":"The Wild Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere, Jemima Shore, investigator and TV personality, arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise, she thinks. But at that moment, she hears a voice: \"All this way for a funeral.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins an adventure far removed from Jemima's visions of heather-covered hills, crystal-clear streams, romantic men in kilts, fairy-tale castles....Instead, she is plunged into the strange world of the aristocratic Beauregard family with its tensions, its jealousies, and its violence, in many ways a primitive world dominated by the land and its possessing. The setting is the Wild Island itself, sometimes enchanting, but too often frighteningly remote; the streams, not silvery, but brown and sinister; her holiday home, with its disturbing, sometimes terrifying, influences; the people--the dashing war hero Colonel Henry and his sons, the forthright old priest Father Flanagan, Bridie the family servant, Clementina the wayward heiress...none of them quite what they seem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then there is the specter of the Scottish \"freedom fighters,\" in the shape of the self-styled army of the Red Rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt all adds up to a brilliantly told story of mystery and intrigue on the Wild Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393331899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d","brand":"Antonia Fraser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636915499164,"sku":"9780393331899","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_65fae7b5-6fdd-462b-bf58-8f218390a192.jpg?v=1603843348","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-wild-island-9780393331899","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}