{"product_id":"the-city-stole-our-names-a-dark-fantasy-of-stolen-memories","title":"The City Stole Our Names: A Dark Fantasy of Stolen Memories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color: font-weight:\u003eEvery wall in Elveyra remembers the people who belong there. Then the city begins forgetting their names.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eElveyra rises in seven terraces above the sea. Its homes, bridges, clinics, and sea wall are held together by living glass shaped from human memory.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eMara Venn was once the city’s greatest memory mason, a master craftsperson who could turn a remembered voice, touch, or moment into structural strength. Eighteen years after a disaster ended her career and shattered her family, she is called back when impossible failures begin spreading through the city.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA bakery puts its oven in the street.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA house accepts a family’s labor but refuses to recognize them as residents.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA clinic returns the dead to the wrong rooms.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA bridge forgets how to carry people.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAnd beneath it all, blue fractures are moving toward the sea wall.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eWith the Blue Quake approaching, Mara has little time to discover what is happening. Her estranged daughter, Romy, has spent years preserving the stories of people the city erased. A harbor glassworker finds traces of her missing brother inside a wealthy family’s walls. Every new clue points toward a hidden system built from memories that were never freely given.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe deeper Mara goes, the more terrifying the truth becomes.\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: background-color: font-weight:\u003eElveyra is not simply forgetting its people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\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: background-color: font-weight:\u003eThe city has survived by using them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eTo save Elveyra, Mara must uncover what happened eighteen years ago, face the daughter who no longer trusts her, and decide whether repair means preserving the world she helped build or surrendering the power that once defined her.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color: font-style: italic\u003eThe City Stole Our Names\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e is a standalone adult fantasy about stolen memory, family guilt, hidden power, and the difficult work of building something better after the truth comes out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lincoln Giovanni","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67397945131312,"sku":"9798188279783","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-city-stole-our-names-a-dark-fantasy-of-stolen-memories","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}