{"product_id":"the-first-act-of-summer","title":"The First Act of Summer","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eFrom the Costa-shortlisted, beloved author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAll My Mothers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Joanna Glen\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIs it ever too late to figure out who you were meant to be?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut childhood friendships can stretch and warp as you grow up, and in the summer of 1976, the year they turned 14, Hester did a terrible thing that would shatter both of their lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor her 60th birthday, Hester goes back to her family’s beach hut to hide from the husband she wants to leave and the daughters she’s never fully understood. It is here that she finally faces up to what she did that fateful summer, wondering whether it’s ever too late to become the person you were meant to be. And if there’s still a chance of finding Elias again…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the Costa-shortlisted author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Other Half of Augusta Hope\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAll My Mothers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMaybe, Perhaps, Possibly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, this is a raw and sweeping novel about the power of a dark secret, the resilience of love and the possibility of redemption.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57167685321077,"sku":"978-0008607463","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/e186ce93-5b8e-468e-a95f-f0b0dea1025b.jpg?v=1778577467","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.com\/products\/the-first-act-of-summer","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}