{"product_id":"down-among-the-women","title":"Down Among The Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London, from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lives and Loves of a She-Devil\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Down among the women. What a place to be!’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo says Wanda, a former radical who left her husband and raised her daughter Scarlet to be as liberated as she. But twenty-year-old Scarlet, with an abortion already behind her, is about to discover real liberation – as a single mother in Fifties’ London. \u003cbr\u003e Yet Scarlet’s not alone. Meet her friends: Sylvia, the born victim; respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage; Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant – and very doomed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Over the course of twenty years, from the Fifties to the Seventies, Scarlet, Wanda and their friends will wonder if they can ever become the women they always dreamed of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for Fay Weldon: \u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A national treasure'' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e''Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists'' \u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e''A queen of words'' Caitlin Moran\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57399090839934,"sku":"NW9781405982641","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781405982641.jpg?v=1778621825","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/down-among-the-women","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}