{"product_id":"books-the-element-of-water-by-stevie-davies","title":"The Element of Water","description":"It is 1958: Isolde Dahl is a young teacher who goes to work in a British school on the shores of Lake Ploen in north-west Germany. She is returning to a country she fled as a child refugee with her mother, Renate. Her father has disappeared into the chaos of a continent ravaged by war. Isolde has grown up in a Wales both strange and familiar.  1945, Lake Ploen. Michael Quantz is an officer in what is left of a shattered German military command as they stage a last chaotic stand before the Allied armies in the final days of the World War II. Everyone has secrets. Michael wants to survive: his wife and son may still be alive. He will hide, change, become a teacher of music.  As Isolde and Michael meet on the shores of a German lake, the choices they have made and the stories they have told will change their lives again.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53503775572241,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781912681150.jpg?v=1778074719","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-element-of-water-by-stevie-davies","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}