{"product_id":"england-1954","title":"ENGLAND 1954","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e\"NOT ALL RUNAWAYS FLEE FROM PUSNISHMENT. SOME ESCAPE TO FIND THEMSELVES.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading, autumm 1954, an eleven year-old boy from Uruguay, is held in a police cell after fleeing -for the third time- from an English boarding school. He is not running from the strictness, a sense of not belonging, and the fear that this island will never truly be his home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet fate will rech out to him in Goring-on-Yhames: a headmaster who knows how to ask forgiveness, a girl named Mary, and a school unlike any other -Elmcroft, a pioneering pilot project designed to transform public education across the UK, where defiance is slowly shaped into purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmid rolling hills, English rain, and the quiet banks of the Thames, Alex will discover an education that teaches him to listen and to imagine. Here his vocation as a writer will take root.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ulikely friendship with Agatha Christie will bloom, and a first love will leave its mark upon him for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom that grey boarding school, a new England will emerge -one that beats within the heart of a boy who learns that freedom is not won by running away, but by learning to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eENGLAND 1954 IS A NOVEL OF FORMATION AND REDEMPTION. A JOURNEY FROM DECEIT TO TRUTH. FROM FEAR TO HOPE. -AND FROM THE LONELINESS OF ONE DISPLACED CHILD TO THE BIRTH OF A NEW VISION FOR EDUCATION.\u003c\/p\u003e\"","brand":"Eduardo Valdes Escoffery","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67499653497136,"sku":"9789962282204","price":11.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/england-1954","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}