{"product_id":"2026200016887-secondhand-jerusalem-the-golden","title":"Jerusalem The Golden","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\u003eClara Maugham, a girl forged in the cold, repressive furnace of a northern English provincial town, arrives in London determined to reinvent herself — and in Jerusalem the Golden, Margaret Drabble chronicles her dazzling, desperate ascent into a world of culture, beauty, and bohemian sophistication. Set against the vivid contrasts of post-war Britain, the novel presents a young woman intoxicated by the glamour of the Denham family — their warmth, their art, their effortless London grace — as she pursues a love affair that promises escape but threatens to unravel her carefully constructed new self.\n\nDrabble writes with a cool, precise intelligence, dissecting the class anxieties and ambitions of 1960s Britain with the sharpness of a scalpel. Jerusalem the Golden, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, stands as one of the defining novels of its era, illustrating the tension between a woman's hunger for self-determination and the seductive pull of a world not her own. Drabble's prose is elegant yet unsparing, and her portrait of Clara — brilliant, calculating, and achingly human — leaves the reader asking whether the golden city she seeks was ever truly within reach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269345190107,"sku":"2026200016887-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4677aa08-747e-4c16-8e50-08176e3c188a.png?v=1788998915","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016887-secondhand-jerusalem-the-golden","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}