{"product_id":"lovers-and-newcomers-9780007285945","title":"Lovers and Newcomers","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of Iris and Ruby comes a novel in which a group of old friends reunite to start a new stage of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. Now the past is revealed; and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosie Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 1.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780007285945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers \u003cem\u003eThe Kashmir Shawl\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSun at Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIris and Ruby\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConstance\u003c\/em\u003e. Once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43093283569779,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_114eacb5-65fb-49d9-b094-76c9ab58fc31.jpg?v=1748525815","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/lovers-and-newcomers-9780007285945","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}