{"product_id":"staunch-9780008325725","title":"Staunch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e‘A fun and uplifting memoir’ \u003cstrong\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A fun and uplifting memoir’ \u003cstrong\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTruthfully, it could be for any one of the below reasons, if not all combined:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStepmum dying\/Stepdad leaving – family falling apart, subsequent psychotic break; both parents now on third marriage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBreaking up with K after 12 years – breaking up a whole life, a whole fucking universe – for reasons that may have been… misguided?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew boyfriend moving in immediately, me insisting ‘it’s not a rebound!’ even after everyone has stopped listening, then breaking up with me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\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\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the trip offers so much more than Eleanor could ever have hoped for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 214g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 129 x 198 x 25 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780008325725\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eleanor Wood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44097965752570,"sku":"9780008325725","price":7.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1656069395829_book.jpg?v=1656162923","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/staunch-9780008325725","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}