{"product_id":"ice-cream-book-helen-dunmore-9780802140531","title":"Ice Cream","description":"Award-winning and New York Times Notable author of The Siege and A Spell for Winter, Helen Dunmore encapsulates, in her brilliant story collection Ice Cream, how a single moment can change the course of a life . . .  the stories are] rich with regret, turmoil, and strained optimism (Entertainment Weekly). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWitty, stylish and evocative, Ice Cream is Helen Dunmore's astonishing new collection of stories, the first to be published in the United States. World-class storyteller Helen Dunmore explores friendship, regret and mysterious passions in stories crafted with subtlety, humor and a surprising tenderness. In each taut, agile tale, characters negotiate situations that are often both mundane and bizarre: a cafeteria cook confronts her Polish pen pal; a divorced mother gains insight from a parking meter; a beautiful, thin and famous woman succumbs to the lure of comfort food; a grieving husband says farewell to his wife; a boastful writer is put in his place in spectacular fashion; and in a chilling future, the government ruthlessly regulates conception and childbirth. In several stories a soulful, curious woman named Ulli takes up residence in the reader's imagination--stumbling across a strangely charismatic collector of religious icons, contemplating a youthful pregnancy, and remembering a troubled lover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Ice Cream, Dunmore reveals both her poet's ear for the concise and piercing potentialities of language and the novelist's ambition of scope, proving her status as a master of the shorter form (The Sunday Telegraph).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49594064306449,"sku":"GOR001019350","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53558181626129,"sku":"CIN080214053XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080214053X.jpg?v=1751138842","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/ice-cream-book-helen-dunmore-9780802140531","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}