{"product_id":"woman-alive","title":"Woman Alive","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoman Alive is a curious science fiction novel from 1936 by Anglo-American writer Susan Ertz. The book is set in London in a dystopian future where only one woman is left alive after all others in the world are wiped out in a pandemic caused by a poisonous gas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis brand new edition is introduced by the acclaimed comedian, broadcaster, actor and writer Graham Norton, who has described the work of Susan Ertz as “glorious”; meanwhile, the new cover has been commissioned by the renowned cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld, whose work combines a love of books and science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSusan Ertz was a popular novelist of the interwar years, best known for her novel \u003cem\u003eMadame Claire,\u003c\/em\u003e which was chosen as one of the first ten Penguin Books paperbacks in 1935; she also wrote \u003cem\u003eIn the\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCool of the Day\u003c\/em\u003e – later adapted into a film of the same name in 1963 – starring Jane Fonda and Angela Lansbury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, one of her earlier titles – \u003cem\u003eWoman Alive\u003c\/em\u003e – is an important work in the canon of speculative fiction, until now largely forgotten among the works of her contemporaries such as George Orwell, H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman Alive\u003c\/em\u003e is set in 1985 and is at once a satire and a commentary on the rising threat of nationalism in 1930s Britain. The novel is cinematic in structure, conjuring a world in which feminism and pacifism are woven together to tell the story of Stella – an accidental survivor who became queen of England and the hope of humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe relevance of this novel to 21st-century society is of course heightened post-Covid-19. But at its heart it is a love story, a romance of sorts and a page-turner extraordinaire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Ertz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46261253275695,"sku":"9781068661365","price":1899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781068661365.webp?v=1790659743","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/woman-alive","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}