{"product_id":"9780008654306","title":"Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Miller, Kirsten \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27 March 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (HQ) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e199 x 130 x 20 | 222g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Clever and astute … a cracking read’ The Belfast Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways’ Hello Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * * *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  IT’S TIME TO RISE UP\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  In Troy, Georgia, local woman Lula Dean has campaigned to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All the ‘disgusting’, ‘pornographic’ and downright ‘un-American’ books have been removed from public spaces. Now, the townspeople are only allowed to read ‘appropriate’ books from Lula’s personal lending library.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But a small group refuse to be told what they can and cannot read and, unbeknownst to Lula, her personal collection is slowly restocked with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, spell books, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One by one, each person who borrows the books from Lula’s library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. And as they begin to reveal their new selves, it’s clear that a showdown is fast approaching – one that will change the town of Troy forever …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * * *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Praise for Kirsten Miller:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too’ JAMES PATTERSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A roar of rage … I loved it’ MARIAN KEYES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘I couldn’t put it down’ ERIN KELLY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Bewitching and satisfying’ THE INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55004756640120,"sku":"9780008654306","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9780008654306_b4bdc150-de4e-459c-8c8a-01f019fa0294.jpg?v=1773925376","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780008654306","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}