{"product_id":"9781784870287-the-yellow-houses","title":"The Yellow Houses","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and strikes up a conversation that leads to friendship and an unconventional new home for Wilfred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and strikes up a conversation that leads to friendship and an unconventional new home for Wilfred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Davis wants only four things out of life: a husband and three children, so at seventeen she runs away from school, her father and her home and moves to London to find them. Only a few months later Mary is engaged, but love and marriage promise to be very different from her childhood daydreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Mary and Wilfred, it seems Fate has taken a hand, or is there another kind of guiding spirit at play?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStella Gibbons' final novel, written in the 1970s but only discovered many years after her death, is published here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40894694621281,"sku":"9781784870287","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32376446.jpg?v=1741180149","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784870287-the-yellow-houses","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}