{"product_id":"five-miles-from-outer-hope-9780007435739","title":"Five Miles from Outer Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pam Farley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant classic of teenage self-discovery by prize-winning Nicola Barker, an \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"anarchic and lovingly perverse writer\" (Ali Smith)\u003c\/b\u003e Summer, 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three in her crocheted stockings, is marooned in a semi-derelict hotel on a tiny island off the coast of Devon, England. There's nothing to do but paint novelty mugs, dream of literary murders, and despair of her gothically unprepossessing family--including Mo, her sex toy-inventing mother; Poodle, her shamefully flat-chested sister; and four-year-old Feely, who wants to grow up to be a bulimic. Until one day a ginger-headed stranger arrives . . . One of our most enjoyably unconventional contemporary writers, Nicola Barker, roots out the darkly surreal in a forgotten corner of the world. \u003ci\u003eFive Miles from Outer Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling, luminous book, and Medve's voice speaks bluntly from the heart, with results that are original and poignant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891316899991,"sku":"9780007435739","price":1070.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780007435739.webp?v=1781183180","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/five-miles-from-outer-hope-9780007435739","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}