{"product_id":"staunch-9780008325725","title":"Staunch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEleanor finds herself in her late 30s on a beach in India with three old ladies, trying to ‘find herself’ and ‘discover her family history’ like some sad middle-class crisis cliché. How did she get here?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTruthfully, it could be for any one of the below reasons, if not all combined:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStepmum dying\/Stepdad leaving – family falling apart, subsequent psychotic break; both parents now on third marriage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBreaking up with K after 12 years – breaking up a whole life, a whole fucking universe – for reasons that may have been… misguided?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew boyfriend moving in immediately, me insisting ‘it’s not a rebound!’ even after everyone has stopped listening, then breaking up with me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGoing into therapy after dating a threatening narcissist (the most pertinent point of which should be noted: I did not break up with him – he ghosted me)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow to address this situation? Take a trip to India with your octogenarian nan and two great aunts of course. The perfect, if somewhat unusual, distraction from Eleanor’s ongoing crisis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the trip offers so much more than Eleanor could ever have hoped for.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough the vivid and worldly older women in her life, she learns what it means to be staunch in the face of true adversity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpercollins Publishers (Uk)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42838342631630,"sku":"9780008325725","price":22.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9780008325725_a.png?v=1778039611","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/staunch-9780008325725","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}