{"product_id":"9781448200894","title":"The Balliols","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Balliols\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Alec Waugh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of the Balliol family as they exist through the suffrage movement and the end of the Edwardian era to the Great War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Balliol children are subject to the effects of the war - the harsh discipline and the subsequent laxness, the breakup of family loyalties, the post-war cynicism and, in the youngest child, the ultimate trend back to a sounder pattern of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe action of this book, which is swift, continuous and dramatic, develops side by side with the plot of its theme that \"to build a sanctuary, you must destroy a sanctuary\"; that the destruction to which these thirty years have been witness was an inevitable and necessary part of progress. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVigorously pursuing the fortunes of an English family during the most turbulently shifting period in history, \u003ci\u003eThe Balliols\u003c\/i\u003e combines the feeling of Cavalcade with the powerful narrative flow of the Forsythe Saga.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781448200894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Reader","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40611772563662,"sku":"9781448200894","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781448200894","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}