{"product_id":"rapture-of-the-deep-9781915568823","title":"Rapture of the Deep","description":"Time travel, deep-sea diving and the quest for the holy grail are improbable ingredients of this delightfully surreal comedy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paul is a young physicist and keen swimmer, unable to get over his ex and frustrated by his lowly research job. He meets an older woman novelist, Molly, and finds himself becoming part of something called The Story. Is it a game, a secret society, an elaborate hoax? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul's search for an answer takes him to high-class casinos, London doss-houses and several hundred feet underwater. Fiendishly clever and charmingly silly, this is an intellectual farce in the spirit of Flann O'Brien or Raymond Queneau.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrwin, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRobert Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e (1946-2024) was a novelist, historian, critic, scholar, and a fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. \u003cbr\u003eHe is the author of eleven novels: The Arabian Nightmare (1983), The Limits of Vision (1986), The Mysteries of Algiers (1988), Exquisite Corpse (1995), Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh (1997), Satan Wants Me (1999) Wonders Will Never Cease (2016), My Life is Like a Fairy Tale (2019), The Runes Have Been Cast (2021), Tom's Version (2023) and Rapture of the Deep(2025).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrumey, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAndrew Crumey\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Glasgow in 1961. He read theoretical physics and mathematics at St Andrews University and Imperial College in London, before doing post-doctoral research at Leeds University on nonlinear dynamics. After six years as the literary editor at Scotland on Sunday he taught creative writing at Northumbria University before taking early retirement to write full time. \u003cbr\u003eHe is the author of nine works of fiction and finished Robert Irwin's last novel Rapture of the Deep which was left unfinished at his death using Robert Irwin's notes and his own imagination.","brand":"Dedalus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197391696146,"sku":"9781915568823","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c9aff40b-6796-42c6-9aa6-28b2e437d4ae.jpg?v=1776166519","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rapture-of-the-deep-9781915568823","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}