{"product_id":"this-happy","title":"This Happy","description":"\u003cp\u003e''\u003cb\u003eA beautiful, wry love story\u003c\/b\u003e'' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eI love this woman''s writing. Golden sentences\u003c\/b\u003e'' Diana Evans, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eOne of the year''s most beautifully written books, THIS HAPPY traces the path to womanhood of Alannah from disastrous affair to no-less-comfortable marriage and beyond''\u003c\/b\u003e The i, Best Books of 2020 So Far\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eIf you loved Sally Rooney''s NORMAL PEOPLE, read this\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003enovel\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003cb\u003eDarkly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eromantic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e... Reminiscent of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEimear McBride''s lyrical Joycean sentences\u003c\/b\u003e'' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''T\u003cb\u003ehe best novel I have read all year'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Business Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have taken apart every panel of this, like an ornamental fan. But we stayed in the cottage for three weeks only, just three weeks, because it was cut short you see - cut short after just three weeks, when I''d left my entire life behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Alannah was twenty-three, she met a man who was older than her - a married man - and fell in love. Things happened suddenly. They met in April, in the first bit of mild weather; and in August, they went to stay in rural Ireland, overseen by the cottage''s landlady.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSix years later, when Alannah is newly married to another man, she sees the landlady from afar. Memories of those days spent in bliss, then torture, return to her. And the realisation that she has been waiting - all this time - to be rediscovered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57321366651262,"sku":"NW9781474611688","price":9.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781474611688.jpg?v=1778649713","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/this-happy","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}