{"product_id":"stern-men-book-elizabeth-gilbert-9780330351768","title":"Stern Men","description":"On two remote islands off the coast of Maine - Courne Haven and Fort Niles - generations of local lobstermen have fought each other over who has the right to fish the waters that divide them. Their unlikely saviour is eighteen-year-old Ruth Thomas, a smart, resilient, irredeemably romantic woman who avoids her destiny with a passion that serves only to draw it closer to her.   'Finding an Austen heroine in a lobster boat - an irreverent and observant young woman, reeking of bait - is one of many delights delivered by Elizabeth Gilbert in Stern Men, her beautifully wrought and very funny novel' Mirabella   'Ruth loves her island with a heroine's passionate wisdom, but she falls in love with a boy from the enemy island, the enemy clan . . . There's Romeo and Juliet in the drama of the young lovers' Los Angeles Times   'Elizabeth Gilbert has been described by Annie Proulx as a \"writer of incandescent talent\". She justifies this assessment in Stern Men . . . Gilbert's poise in constructing a plot and her feeling for her characters make it a worthy successor to Pilgrims which won a series of first-fiction awards' Glasgow Herald","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585665573137,"sku":"GOR005343460","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330351761.jpg?v=1751165082","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/stern-men-book-elizabeth-gilbert-9780330351768","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}