{"product_id":"summertime-9781408850657","title":"Summertime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eA sparkling comedy of rural life, high and low\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eVery, very funny''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI loved it. I couldn''t put it down ... Raffaella Barker is so good at drawing her characters and making them likeable that within about ten pages you know them intimately and a few pages later you are almost as concerned about them as you are your real friends ... Very, very well done'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003eAfter one year of being buffered from single-motherhood' by her boyfriend, David, Venetia Summers suddenly finds her life unravelling as he is sent to the Brazilian jungle and she is left alone in Norfolk.As chaos reigns in her home and her three children run wilder than ever she finds her life further complicated by a bad-mouthed green parrot, a burgeoning fashion career designing demented cardigans and her brother's outrageous wedding.As emails languish unanswered, phone lines cut out and long-distance relationships prove both vexing and bewildering, lif\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery, very funny * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eI loved it. I couldn't put it down ... Raffaella Barker is so good at drawing her characters and making them likeable that within about ten pages you know them intimately and a few pages later you are almost as concerned about them as you are your real friends ... Very, very well done * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003eMy advice is not to read \u003ci\u003eSummertime\u003c\/i\u003e in public. You'll giggle, you'll snort, you'll make an exhibition of yourself ... I loved \u003ci\u003eHens Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e, and this is better yet * Country Life *\u003cbr\u003eThe comic voices are virtuoso ... \u003ci\u003eSummertime\u003c\/i\u003e is a mood-altering book: as light and bright and optimistic as the days it celebrates * Independent *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408010682711,"sku":"9781408850657","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408850657.jpg?v=1730501261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/summertime-9781408850657","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}