{"product_id":"down-among-the-women","title":"Down Among the Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRediscover the brilliance of \u003cem\u003eDown Among the Women\u003c\/em\u003e in the Mermaid Collection – timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today’s readers. A classic from beloved national treasure Fay Weldon sees four women break the shackles of patriarchy and domesticity in 1950s London, from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lives and Loves of a She-Devil.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith a foreword by Jenny Colgan‘Down among the women. What a place to be!’So says Wanda, a former radical who left her husband and raised her daughter Scarlet to be as liberated as she.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut twenty-year-old Scarlet, with an abortion already behind her, is about to discover real liberation – as a single mother in Fifties’ London. Yet Scarlet’s not alone. Meet her friends: Sylvia, the born victim; respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage; Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant – and very doomed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver the course of twenty years, from the Fifties to the Seventies, Scarlet, Wanda and their friends will wonder if they can ever become the women they always dreamed of being. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fay Weldon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56514374074755,"sku":"9781405982641","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-1841.png?v=1758968219","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/down-among-the-women","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}