{"product_id":"brave-and-bold-book-nell-frizzell-9780008797393","title":"Brave and Bold","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA hundred years. Thousands of women. One extraordinary pond.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e\n              \u003cem\u003eI have learned about peacocks and terrapins, giant cobras and booming widgeons; I have heard about celebrity spottings and al-fresco lovemaking and digestive biscuits. These things make up the history of the Ladies’ Pond, but they also give us an insight into a hundred years of women’s lives.\u003c\/em\u003e\n            \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e\n              \u003cem\u003eFrom code breakers to cake bakers, I have learned that there is no such thing as a ‘normal woman’; and over the last hundred years the Pond has played host to thousands of remarkable people.\u003c\/em\u003e\n            \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eFor a century, the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath has welcomed women from every walk of life: artists and activists, swimmers and sunbathers, friends and free spirits. As Britain’s most famous female open-air swimming spot, a pocket of wildness tucked away in the middle of the city, it has long attracted adventurous swimmers from all over the UK and the wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrave and Bold\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates one hundred years of this beloved London landmark through the rhythm of a single swimming year, from frozen Januarys to sun-drenched midsummers; through friendships, feminist activism and the exhilaration of open water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eCreated in collaboration with the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association and rich with previously unseen archive material and new interviews – from Dolly Alderton and Amy Liptrot to lifelong swimmers of every era – this is far more than the story of one pond. It’s a story of community, women and wild water across a century of social and political change, from suffragettes to soap stars, war to liberation, and shared flasks of tea to acts of quiet rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrave and Bold \u003c\/em\u003eis both a love letter to Hampstead Heath and to every woman who has ever felt most at home bobbing about in open water.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53475957113105,"sku":"NLS9780008797393","price":13.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53642174791953,"sku":"GOR014989986","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54088849326353,"sku":"GOR015056502","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54097867669777,"sku":"GOR015059010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780008797393.jpg?v=1786109915","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/brave-and-bold-book-nell-frizzell-9780008797393","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}