{"product_id":"after-alice","title":"After Alice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAfter Alice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Gregory Maguire, the bestselling author of WICKED,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a wonderful retelling of what happened next after Alice disappeared down the rabbit hole. An entertaining spin on Lewis Caroll's classic tale of Alice in Wonderland, this novel will delight fans of Angela Carter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Alice fell down the rabbit-hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's disappearance?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGregory Maguire turns his imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings -and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll's enduring tale. Ada, a friend mentioned briefly in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, sets out to visit Alice but, arriving a moment too late, tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAda brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the world. The White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and the bloodthirsty Queen of Hearts interrupt their mad tea party to suggest a conundrum: if Eurydice can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus, or if Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEither way, everything that happens next is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAfter Alice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55512929206657,"sku":"9781472230461","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0244\/8444\/6286\/files\/afteralice.png?v=1775746673","url":"https:\/\/shop.bl.uk\/products\/after-alice","provider":"British Library Online Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}