{"product_id":"9781472289926","title":"Close to Home","description":"Author: Deborah Moggach\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472289926\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Headline\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Nov 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026lt;H3\u0026gt;First published in 1979\u003c\/b\u003e, this is \u003cb\u003ebestselling author Deborah Moggach's second novel.\u0026lt;\/H3\u0026gt;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e__________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Moggach is \u003cb\u003eat the height of her powers\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'She really is the\u003cb\u003e Nora Ephron of North London' \u003c\/b\u003eClare Chambers, author of \u003ci\u003eSmall Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'She writes unflinchingly\u003c\/b\u003e about family life, divorce, children, and the ups and downs of relationships' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e__________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKate Cooper has been married to James for six years, and is trying very hard to be the model wife while he enjoys his high-flying career, but there's always something she feels she doesn't get quite right, whether it's her inability to remove their toddler son's pencil squiggles from the freshly painted walls, to the grubby button holes on her new blouse.  Then she meets aspiring novelist Sam, her next door neighbour, a man who shouldn't, but does, have time on his hands. And he makes her laugh. But what about his wife, and their daughter Marion, dreaming her way through adolescence?\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCLOSE TO HOME\u003c\/b\u003e is a novel of \u003cb\u003eone hot summer, of passion and dislocation\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eof lives converging in unexpected ways.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919476801694,"sku":"ING-9781472289926","price":35.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781472289926.jpg?v=1782812857","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781472289926","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}