{"product_id":"the-house-of-women","title":"The House Of Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift. Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred. And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house - all of them women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere is widowed daughter Victoria, increasingly a hypochondriac; granddaughter Lizzie, who bears the brunt of running the house, as well as enduring a loveless marriage to Len Hammond; and Peggy, her sixteen-year-old daughter, now trying to find the courage to drop the bomb-shell of her pregnancy into their midst.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis explosive situation provides the springboard for a powerful and absorbing novel that explores, over a period of fifteen years, all that fate holds in store for the dwellers in the house of women, reaching its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/catherine-cookson-books\"\u003eCatherine Cookson\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Corgi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780552133036\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Corgi","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.00","offer_id":47912091549873,"sku":"SB-0552133035-C4","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0552133035.jpg?v=1789151459","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-house-of-women","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}