{"product_id":"book-av6o","title":"Company of Liars","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation  of Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful  human drama. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled  by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt  to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Each member  of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will  become the group’s leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange,  silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret.  None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all—propelling  these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Magical, heart-quickening, and raw,  \u003ci\u003eCompany of Liars\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical  fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCompany of Liars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Maitland] brings to life a medieval England of muddy streets and half-naked children fighting each other for pieces of dog dung to sell to the tanners, as sheep-stealers swing purple-faced from the gallows. . . . She neatly catches the spirit of primitive superstition that governed every aspect of 14th century life and then rolls on with it for her own story-telling ends. . . . \u003ci\u003eCompany of Liars\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly evocative page-turner which brings to life a lost and terrible period of British history, with a disturbing final twist worthy of a master of the spine-tingler, such as Henry James.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDaily Express \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Transports readers back to the days of the Black Death . . . Paying homage to \u003ci\u003eThe Decameron \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales,\u003c\/i\u003e this is a gripping read. . . . As a reader you are taken as close to the plague as you would ever wish to go.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBookseller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49339747107120,"sku":"BDav6o","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/267896-av6o-Square.jpg?v=1734028655","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-av6o","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}