{"product_id":"happening","title":"Happening","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Annie Ernaux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43620073079041,"sku":"9781804270530","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2024-10-06T110407.000.png?v=1728209091","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/happening","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}