{"product_id":"billy-and-girl-book-deborah-levy-9781408840689","title":"Billy and Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A postmodern tragicomedy of childhood, original as always' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eMichele Roberts,\u003ci\u003e Independent on Sunday Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's profoundly serious, combining massive abstractions - love, desire, the universality of pain - with the diminutive in a way that's often witty, sometimes lyrical and, amazingly, very rarely trivialising' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Sharp, savage and spry, Levy shows us what kinship is really about in this strange, touching and totally original novel' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Darian Leader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Freezerworld toy section, all the girl princess dolls stand proud in their tiny gold shoes.  Big hair and luned-out stares. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl says, listen, one day I will have a kingdom too.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBilly and his sister, Girl, are clever, stylish and damaged. They live somewhere in England and are searching for their missing mother. They think she might be lurking in Freezerworld, a mega superstore on the edge of a motorway. Yet it is a young woman stocking the shelves in this 'frozen world' who attracts their attention.  Girl, who wants a proper name, feels a special bond with her as she gazes at the name tag on her uniform. Will she lead them to their mother? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBilly \u0026amp; Girl \u003c\/i\u003eis both a joyful contemporary fairy tale and a hard hitting critique of the beginning of frantic consumerism in the 1990s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50211876208913,"sku":"GOR005525560","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50278316769553,"sku":"GOR013910188","price":13.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1408840685.jpg?v=1786134166","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/billy-and-girl-book-deborah-levy-9781408840689","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}