{"product_id":"9780571388059","title":"Ex-Wife (Faber Editions) : 'I was floored: truly brilliant.' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss) by Parrott, Ursula","description":"Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003cbr\u003e9780571388059\u003cbr\u003e'A forgotten classic: darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.' (Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually).   'I was floored: truly brilliant.' (Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss)It feels remarkable to be a deserted wife when one is only twenty-four.   New York, 1924. Patricia and Peter are a thoroughly modern married couple. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work. Both believe in 'Love-Outside-Marriage'. Until they don't. Or, really, until he doesn't. So when Peter pushes for divorce with increasing violence, Patricia has to forge a new life as a single woman: as an ex-wife.   A sensational bestseller in 1929, yet utterly timeless, Ex-Wife plunges us into the 'era of the one-night stand'. It evokes not only the Manhattan bars, fashion advertising offices, female friendships and all-night parties of a dazzling city, but the hollow affairs, emotional hangovers, backstreet abortions, and struggles for sexual freedoms amidst the moral double standards of a patriarchal world.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The Book Elephant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50731651072333,"sku":"9780571388059","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0829\/0808\/6605\/files\/9780571388059.jpg?v=1734600358","url":"https:\/\/thebookelephant.co.uk\/products\/9780571388059","provider":"The Book Elephant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}