{"product_id":"love-life-of-a-cheltenham-lady","title":"Love Life Of A Cheltenham Lady By Brooke, Dinah","description":"\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\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\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\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57585078239614,"sku":"NW9781961341647","price":12.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781961341647.jpg?v=1783217838","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/love-life-of-a-cheltenham-lady","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}