{"product_id":"9781961341647","title":"Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Dinah Brooke\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 18 December 2025 by McNally Jackson Books in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 224 pages, Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e128 x 217 x 17 | 298g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a searing tale of a young woman’s unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiranda, her husband Louis, and their infant daughter are set to spend the summer in a rented villa in Tuscany. He’s a self-assured young American actor; she, a well-educated, well-bred English ingénue. But when Louis is called away to a shoot, Miranda is left alone with her baby in the remote Italian countryside—until a young Italian named Oreste arrives, claiming to have been invited by her now-absent husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiranda quickly falls under the interloper’s spell—and into his arms—launching into a feverish affair that threatens to dissolve her already fragile, fracturing sense of self. As events spiral further out of her control, the novel hurtles headlong toward its horrifying conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the same “limpid, assured style: cruel, yes, but not detached or apathetic” (Harper’s Magazine) as Lord Jim at Home, Dinah Brooke’s transgressive debut remains every bit as shocking as when it was first published in 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48469344059651,"sku":"9781961341647","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781961341647.jpg?v=1782303517","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781961341647","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}