{"product_id":"2026200013750-secondhand-electricity-a-novel","title":"Electricity: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the gaslit drawing rooms and rain-soaked countryside of Victorian England, Charlotte Mortimer navigates a world crackling with the invisible forces of desire, ambition, and a society on the cusp of transformation — Electricity is Victoria Glendinning's intoxicating debut novel, chronicling one woman's search for selfhood against the backdrop of a nation being rewired by modernity. Charlotte, married to a pioneer in the nascent electrical industry, finds herself caught between duty and longing, as the revolutionary technology her husband champions becomes a powerful metaphor for the raw, ungovernable currents running beneath the surface of her own life.\n\nGlendinning, celebrated for her masterful literary biographies of figures such as Vita Sackville-West and Anthony Trollope, brings that same razor-sharp insight into the human condition to her fiction, crafting a narrative that is at once intimate and sweeping in its historical scope. Her prose is luminous and precise, illuminating the quiet rebellions and suppressed passions of a woman who refuses to be merely a decorative fixture in her husband's grand design. Rich with period detail and psychological acuity, Electricity poses a question that still hums with relevance: what happens when a woman discovers that the most dangerous current of all runs through her own heart?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160898543835,"sku":"2026200013750-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4f9c41b4-6c59-4904-95cc-eb21b1510176.png?v=1787188277","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013750-secondhand-electricity-a-novel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}