{"product_id":"the-black-maria","title":"The Black Maria","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eThe choice is simple: freedom or love. In Stalin's Russia, you can't have both.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eMoscow, 1935. People live in constant fear – fear of each other, fear of being denounced, and fear of Stalin’s secret police.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eMaria has a devastating secret. She marries a man loyal to Stalin, not out of love, but as a means of forming a new identity and escaping her past. Her existence is safe – but dull. Until the day she meets Dmitry.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eDmitry is an artist, whose work allows him a standard of living way above the average Muscovite. But Dmitry feels straitjacketed by what he’s allowed to paint. He aspires to paint the female form. When Maria offers to pose for him, he refuses, knowing how dangerous it would be – until he falls in love with her.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eDmitry’s artistic aspirations and Maria’s yearning for a new life force them to risk everything in the name of love and freedom. But will it destroy them?\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eHistorical fiction with heart and drama\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ePart of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eThe Love and War Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e, novels set during the 20th century's darkest years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"","brand":"Rathbone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48030595645744,"sku":"9781499749915","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781499749915.jpg?v=1728564076","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-black-maria","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}