{"product_id":"love-among-the-ruins-9780349018652","title":"Love Among the Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Among the Ruins \u003c\/i\u003eis a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Virago Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780349018652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.80w x 1.40d","brand":"Angela Thirkell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44493170344117,"sku":"9780349018652","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_eaa2f994-5784-4e83-a768-c5ffe00cfd1c.jpg?v=1721747320","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/love-among-the-ruins-9780349018652","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}