{"title":"250226","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781787335721","title":"Departure(s)","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEmily says about Departures: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"It seems odd that my first reading of Julian Barnes is his last book. Part story, part autobiography, Barnes explores memory, love and death in beautiful detail. Comforting, wry and very human.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eDeparture(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. 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As I began each story I felt sure it wouldn’t grab a hold of me as the previous one had- time and time again I was proved wrong! As always with Curtis’s writing, the characters feel so real and incredibly human. I love Curtis Sittenfeld!\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. 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This novel is a masterclass’ – The IndependentA woman determined to make her mark. A journey that will change everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis, 1895. Glamour hides a city on the brink. One morning, a young woman boards the Granville Express with a deadly plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the journey lives intertwine in explosive ways. 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The Unworthy has mastered this; words crossed out and half finished, personal confessions and information dropped on us through the clumsiness of someone in a panic make this an incredibly gripping but harrowing read. I loved it!\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRisking her life, one of the unworthy keeps a diary in secret. Slowly, memories surface from a time before the world collapsed, before the Sacred Sisterhood became the only refuge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen Lucía arrives. She, too, is unworthy - but she is different. 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