{"product_id":"blitz-rats-9781784634513","title":"Blitz Rats","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBuilding a machine to bait a fresh blitz, forty years on.\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEast End siblings John and Liz are Blitz Rats: children who scavenge London’s bombed streets nightly for whatever the fires leave behind – jewellery, gramophones, a dead star’s tap shoes, shrapnel to scratch their own stories into concrete – while their father clears rubble by day, unable to bear the waste. Decades on, alone underground in 1986, John builds a machine from salvaged wartime parts, meant to ‘bait a fresh blitz’ and recreate the one period when his life had shape. Vaughan’s debut fuses wartime slang, cinema-programme headers and incantatory litanies of loot into something closer to prose-poetry than the conventional war novel – comic, tender and finally devastating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePraise for This Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A different, possibly unique, take on the collective memory of the heroic spirit of the London Blitz.’ —\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Rose\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ccite\u003eBlitz Rats\u003c\/cite\u003e is a deathly hilarious and profound novel. While set in the past, its revelations are urgent now, as we seek to shelter humanity in the darkest of times. Chris Vaughan is a writer whose books will resonate for years to come.’ —\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Bible\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Vaughan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56368562798971,"sku":"9781784634513","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/7222\/files\/9781784634513.jpg?v=1786081581","url":"https:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/products\/blitz-rats-9781784634513","provider":"Salt","version":"1.0","type":"link"}