{"product_id":"julia-pre-order","title":"Julia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLondon, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. Everyone likes Julia. A diligent member of the Junior Anti-Sex League (though she is secretly promiscuous) she knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe's very good at staying alive. But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department - a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith - when she sees him locking eyes with a superior from the Inner Party at the Two Minutes Hate. And when one day, finding herself walking toward Winston, she impulsively hands him a note - a potentially suicidal gesture - she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sandra Newman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44038451036417,"sku":"9781783789160","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-1095.png?v=1720713799","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/julia-pre-order","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}