{"product_id":"9781961341647-love-life-of-a-cheltenham-lady","title":"Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A devastating account of the sexual awakening of an English lady . An intense, fastidiously crafted and disturbing novel.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” \u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a searing tale of a young woman’s unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiranda, her husband Louis, and their infant daughter are set to spend the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. He’s a self-assured young American actor; she, a well-educated, well-bred English ingénue. But when Louis is called away to a shoot, Miranda is left alone with her baby in the remote Italian countryside—until a young Italian named Oreste arrives, claiming to have been invited by her now-absent husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiranda quickly falls under the interloper’s spell—and into his arms—launching into a feverish affair that threatens to dissolve her already fragile, fracturing sense of self. As events spiral further out of her control, the novel hurtles headlong toward its horrifying conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in the same “limpid, assured style: cruel, yes, but not detached or apathetic” (\u003ci\u003eHarper’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) as \u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home\u003c\/i\u003e, Dinah Brooke’s transgressive debut remains every bit as shocking as when it was first published in 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56581639340406,"sku":"9781961341647","price":14.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37682346_fcbace2d-bbd7-4287-a34e-70b6597bc5c7.jpg?v=1762395786","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781961341647-love-life-of-a-cheltenham-lady","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}