{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"The Fall","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/the-fall-2003","description":"Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-stricken when he hears of Jamie\u0026#39;s death after a fall on a relatively easy Welsh rockface. The past, though, hides the secret clues behind the tragedy. Layer by layer Simon Mawer peels back what happened, going not only into the friends\u0026#39; childhoods but that of their parents - who were also intimate. And there is no escaping that past - vividly imagined scenes in the London of the Blitz reveal how through two generations Rob and Jamie and their respective parents have been addicted - to desire and the heady dangers of climbing. Brilliantly structured as we move from past to present and back again, this novel will make Simon Mawer\u0026#39;s literary reputation.","author_name":"Simon Mawer","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/simon-mawer","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/32176196/dd396923921101e19a7b5a09d1fa4571374e75d7.jpeg","thumbnail_width":375,"thumbnail_height":500}