{"product_id":"love-in-five-acts","title":"Love In Five Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\"Highly recommended\" \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Utterly captivating\" \u003ci\u003eWoman and Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sympathetic and clear-eyed\"\u003ci\u003e Financial Times \u003c\/i\u003eSummer Reads of 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Unfailingly impressive\" \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sparse and precise\"\u003ci\u003e Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A beautiful novel of what it is to be a women in modern Europe\" \u003ci\u003eNew European\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eAn intelligent study of female desire, ambition and frailty\" \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBookseller \u003cb\u003ePaula\u003c\/b\u003e has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent \u003cb\u003eJudith\u003c\/b\u003e thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn''t stop her looking for love online. \u003cb\u003eBrida\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer with no time to write, until she faces a choice between her work and her family. Abandoned by the \"perfect\" man, \u003cb\u003eMalika\u003c\/b\u003e struggles for recognition from her parents. Her sister \u003cb\u003eJorinde\u003c\/b\u003e, an actor, is pregnant for a third time, but how can she provide for her family alone?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLove in Five Acts\u003c\/i\u003e explores what is left to five women when they have fulfilled their roles as wives, mothers, friends, lovers, sisters and daughters. As teenagers they experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall, but freedom brings with it another form of pressure: the pressure of choice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Punchy and entirely of the moment, \u003ci\u003eLove in Five Acts\u003c\/i\u003e engages head-on with what it is to be a woman in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the German by Jamie Bulloch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314252685694,"sku":"NW9781529406405","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529406405.jpg?v=1780084916","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/love-in-five-acts","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}