{"product_id":"lost-on-me","title":"Lost On Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe prize-winning 100,000-copy Italian bestseller  \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2023 book of the year for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIrish Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e New European, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Largehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Deliciously enjoyable''\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Heiny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I adored it\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eNaoise Dolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Wild, funny and disturbing'' \u003c\/b\u003eRoddy Doyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Thrillingly original'' \u003c\/b\u003eMonica Ali\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Issue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA delightfully funny Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero''s need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend''s house after they have been together for less than a week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she continues to plot escapades and her mother''s relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, \u003ci\u003eLost on Me\u003c\/i\u003e seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero''s first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own). Deceptively simple, its tenderness offset by moments of cool brutality, \u003ci\u003eLost on Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterwork of human observation.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312163594622,"sku":"NW9780349017662","price":14.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780349017662.jpg?v=1778514727","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/lost-on-me","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}