{"product_id":"north-and-south-9780099511489","title":"North and South","description":"Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbors, and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with short stories and a biography of Charlotte Bront?, Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) published five more novels including \u003ci\u003eMary Barton\u003c\/i\u003e (1848)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWives and Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e (1865). Jenny Uglow is the author of \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Gaskell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHogarth\u003c\/i\u003e--both shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Lunar Men\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and \u003ci\u003eNature's Engraver\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872452972818,"sku":"9780099511489","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6eb15194-57f9-47d5-a350-8c596b33a6f5.jpg?v=1748514606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/north-and-south-9780099511489","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}