{"product_id":"ex-wife","title":"Ex-Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"scope_book_description\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt feels remarkable to be a deserted wife when one is only twenty-four.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York, 1924. Patricia and Peter are a thoroughly modern married couple. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work. Both believe in 'Love-Outside-Marriage'. Until they don't. Or, really, until \u003ci\u003ehe \u003c\/i\u003edoesn't. So when Peter pushes for divorce with increasing violence, Patricia has to forge a new life as a single woman: as an ex-wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sensational bestseller in 1929, yet utterly timeless, \u003ci\u003eEx-Wife \u003c\/i\u003eby Ursula Parrott plunges us into the 'era of the one-night stand'. It evokes not only the Manhattan bars, fashion advertising offices, female friendships and all-night parties of a dazzling city, but the hollow affairs, emotional hangovers, backstreet abortions, and struggles for sexual freedoms amidst the moral double standards of a patriarchal world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eA forgotten classic: darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.\u003c\/em\u003e' Monica Heisey\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003eI was floored: truly brilliant\u003c\/em\u003e.' Meg Mason\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"spec\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimensions: 20\u003cspan\u003e x \u003cspan itemprop=\"width\"\u003e13c\u003c\/span\u003em\u003cbr\u003e304 page paperback book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BAM Store + Space","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41882061701252,"sku":"BOOK833","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/5620\/2628\/files\/ex-wife-ursual-parrott-bam-store-space-bristol-bookshop-uk.jpg?v=1722503375","url":"https:\/\/bambristol.pro\/products\/ex-wife","provider":"BAM Store + Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}