{"product_id":"perfect-explanation-book-eleanor-anstruther-9780358415169","title":"A Perfect Explanation","description":"Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A \"superb debut\"* novel--based on the story of the author's grandmother--following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events--a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for £500--that reverberated through the generations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the family will reunite for one last time, with a decade during the interwar period, A Perfect Explanation explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49566149181713,"sku":"CIN0358415160G","price":8.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640380006673,"sku":"GOR013569059","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001280004369,"sku":"NIN9780358415169","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0358415160.jpg?v=1751437515","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/perfect-explanation-book-eleanor-anstruther-9780358415169","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}