{"product_id":"the-wives-of-bath","title":"The Wives of Bath","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Wives of Bath  Susan Swan penetrates the world of a girls boarding school and tells a story - at once shocking and wickedly funny - that encompasses rebellion and murder  and stunningly evokes the pain  confusion  and humour of female adolescence and sexual coming-of-age.  It is 1963. Mary Bradford (a.k.a. Mouse) is thirteen when she is shipped off to Bath Ladies College. Mouse  motherless  a hunchback  enters the school feeling very much on its margins  determined never to fit in with the \"normal\" girls  never to succumb to the expectations of the elder role models: the spinster teachers  the elegant mothers of her schoolmates. She chooses her allies carefully: her hump  whom she calls Alice  and John F. Kennedy  to whom she writes long letters asking and giving advice.  But the school itself is stranger than Mouse ever could have imagined. A secret underworld of tunnels beneath the buildings  stolen love letters  King Kong worship  and ghostlike apparitions - a world where young girls sometimes refuse to be simply \"good little girls\" - all lead Mouse into experiences  both terrifying and exciting  of an alternate reality for her sex. What begins as experimentation spins out of control  ending in a death that only Mouse can fully comprehend.  Susan Swan has created in Mouse Bradford - wise  witty and vulnerable - an unforgettable heroine. The Wives of Bath is a novel that both moves the heart an astonishes the imagination.  The internationally acclaimed movie Lost and Delirious is based on the bestselling novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949857534005,"sku":"ByrdShop_1862071373","price":39.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781862071377.jpg?v=1770088431","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-wives-of-bath","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}