{"product_id":"spinster-9781472152077","title":"Spinster","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Whom to marry and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman''s existence.'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins \u003ci\u003eSpinster\u003c\/i\u003e, a revelatory look at the pleasures, problems and possibilities of living independently in the 21st century, reconsidering what it means - what it could mean - for women to ''have it all''.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I wish I could give this wise and subtle book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart . . . Bold and intelligent''\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Mead, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Life in Middlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A triumph''\u003c\/b\u003e Malcolm Gladwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Women of the world listen here: drop whatever you''re doing and read Kate Bolick''s marvelous meditation on what it means to be female at the dawn of the 21st century'' \u003c\/b\u003eJoanna Rakoff, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Salinger Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Moving, insightful and important'' \u003c\/b\u003eElif Batuman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Possessed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBolick links her own experiences into the world of literature very well, whether it's Louisa May Alcott or Mary Oliver: 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' * The Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a memoir about what it's like to be a single woman. It's revealing and sometimes sad. There's a heartbreaking part about the death of her mother in middle age, and the loss of everything that might have come later. It's very literary - steeped in female writers * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eMs Bolick's is a personal story of the pleasures and challenges of being a woman at a time of changing rules and seemingly endless possibilities * Economist *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867202990423,"sku":"9781472152077","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472152077.jpg?v=1722282184","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spinster-9781472152077","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}