{"product_id":"a-chip-shop-in-poznan-ben-aitken","title":"A Chip Shop In Poznań | Ben Aitken","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM. Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2016 Ben Aitken moved to Poland while he still could. It wasn't love that took him but curiosity: he wanted to know what the Poles in the UK had left behind. He flew to a place he'd never heard of and then accepted a job in a chip shop on the minimum wage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen he wasn't peeling potatoes he was on the road scratching the country's surface: he milked cows with a Eurosceptic farmer; missed the bus to Auschwitz; spent Christmas with complete strangers and went to Gdansk to learn how communism got the chop. By the year's end he had a better sense of what the Poles had turned their backs on - southern mountains, northern beaches, dumplings! - and an uncanny ability to bone cod. This is a candid, funny and offbeat tale of a year as an unlikely immigrant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32431803400266,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/products\/image_f011476e-865a-4a1e-b73b-a7a66a9ec336.jpg?v=1598014269","url":"https:\/\/pigeonbooks.live\/products\/a-chip-shop-in-poznan-ben-aitken","provider":"Pigeon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}