{"product_id":"ecstatic","title":"Ecstatic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"534\" data-start=\"438\"\u003eWhen a government curfew silences a city, one woman risks everything to make it dance again. \u003cspan\u003eAn electrifying dystopian novel about state control, collective resistance and the radical power of dance in a city on the brink\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003ePassionate and compulsive\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e Esther Freud, author of \u003cem\u003eHideous Kinky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"934\" data-start=\"536\"\u003eIn a near-future London gripped by heat, unrest and state control, Lois refuses to let the body be regulated. When the right to assemble is revoked and the city turns brittle with violence, she plans an illegal three-day ‘long dance’ inside a crumbling East End church. What begins as an act of liberation will ripple through the lives of five strangers, with consequences none of them can foresee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"946\" data-start=\"936\"\u003eEcstatic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a fierce, lyrical novel about freedom and control, intimacy and collective release. It captures a city on edge and the underground communities that refuse to surrender joy. At once political and deeply human, it asks what happens when we lose touch with our bodies, and what it might cost to reclaim them. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘This beautiful and compelling novel is a paean to the power of dance … an exhilarating journey into a world where ecstatic dance just might hold the key to the future of humanity. You won't want to put it down – except to get up and dance’ \u003cstrong\u003eHenry Shukman, author of \u003cem\u003eOne Blade of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Original Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e‘Powerful, raw and fearless. I love how it invokes the wild feminine energies of chaos and design, destruction and renewal, death and rebirth. A remarkable achievement’ \u003cstrong\u003eAyala Gill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Remarkable … Woof’s prose is limpid and soaring. I don’t know of any other texts on this particular form of dance\/spiritual practice that are able to capture so vividly the experience’ \u003cstrong\u003eManu Bazzano\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ‘Timely, vivid and important’ \u003cstrong\u003eEleanor Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOUT AUGUST 2026. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6 data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003eHardback: 320pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6 data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (August 2026)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6 data-end=\"1256\" data-start=\"936\"\u003eISBN: \u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e9781806770694\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilton Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53502671520071,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/3784\/1223\/files\/9781806770694.jpg?v=1774289330","url":"https:\/\/wiltonsquarebooks.com\/products\/ecstatic","provider":"Wilton Square","version":"1.0","type":"link"}