{"product_id":"the-birthday-present-a-novel-9780307460479","title":"The Birthday Present: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA deft  insightful  and compulsively readable exploration of obsessive desire--and the dark twists of fate that can shake the lives of even those most insulated by privilege  sophistication  and power.  Ivor Tesham is a handsome  single  young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter--a beautiful  leggy  married woman named Hebe--the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts  spiced up by what the newspapers like to call adventure sex.  Its the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that involves a curbside kidnapping. Its all intended as mock-dangerous foreplay  but then things take a dark turn.  After things go horribly wrong  Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly specic details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered--and his political future from being destroyed by scandal.  Like a heretic on the inquisitors rack  Ivor is not to be spared the exquisitely slow and tortuous unfolding of events  as hints  nuances  and small revelations lay his darkest secrets hideously bare for all the world to see.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276418080821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307460479","price":66.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307460479.jpg?v=1780550712","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-birthday-present-a-novel-9780307460479","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}