{"product_id":"love-life-of-a-cheltenham-lady","title":"Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781961341647\u003cbr\u003eFormat: With flaps\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the 'brilliant forgotten novelist' behind the 'ferocious'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLord Jim at Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) comes a searing tale of a young woman's unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 ingenue. 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\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\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A devastating account of the sexual awakening of an English lady... An intense, fastidiously crafted and disturbing novel.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best descriptions of the sheer illogicality and waywardness of sex and love that I have ever read.' \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[A] brilliant forgotten novelist.' Claire Allfree,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brooke has a limpid, assured style: cruel, ye\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859672539269,"sku":"PR433005","price":51.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG5WEDDY9F3.jpg?v=1789102817","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/love-life-of-a-cheltenham-lady","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}