{"product_id":"9781526612656","title":"Brother of the More Famous Jack : BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Trapido, Barbara, Semple, Maria, Cusk, Rachel (Author) \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 17 March 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e131 x 197 x 20 | 190g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime**A JOYFUL 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF A COMING-OF-AGE CLASSICâ€˜There are few modern tales of first love and its disillusions that are as thoroughly realised, as brilliantly lewd, and as hilariously satisfying to men and women of all ages as this oneâ€™ - Rachel CuskEighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when a romantic entanglement ends in tears, Katherine is forced into exile from the family she loves most. And her journey back into the fold, after more than a decade away, will yield all kinds of delightful surprises...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eâ€˜The perfect bookâ€™ - Meg Masonâ€˜The best possible company in this difficult worldâ€™ - Ann Patchettâ€˜A daisy bomb of joyâ€™ - Maria Sempleâ€˜Funny, charming, teeming with life, and realâ€™ - Nick Hornbyâ€˜I adored it â€¦ Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroineâ€™ - Sophie Dahlâ€˜One of those books that when people have read it, they just push it into your hands silently: 'You have to read this book, you will love this book.' Thereâ€™s no other book I love moreâ€™ - Caroline O'Donoghue, Sentimental Garbageâ€˜Reading it again is as comforting as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheetsâ€™ - Rachel Cooke, Sunday Timesâ€˜Think Brideshead Revisited set in the 1970s, only sexier and much funnier. It kills me that I didnâ€™t read it at university, when I really needed itâ€™ - Meg Rosoff, New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025341989162,"sku":"9781526612656","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9781526612656.jpg?v=1773925777","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781526612656","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}