{"product_id":"shelf-life-livia-franchini","title":"Livia Franchini - Shelf Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eA refreshing, heart-wrenching, innovative debut about a young woman rebuilding herself after her partner abandons her, leaving behind only their shared shopping list for the upcoming week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Shelf Life is whip-smart, slyly heartbreaking, and I felt the truth of it in my bones.' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth is thirty years old. She works as a nurse in a care home and her fiance has just broken up with her. The only thing she has left of him is their shopping list for the upcoming week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with six eggs, and working through spaghetti and strawberries, apples and tea bags, this inventive novel builds a picture of a woman defined by the people she serves; her patients, her friends, and, most of all, her partner of ten years. Without him, Ruth needs to find out - with conditioner and single cream and a lot of sugar - who she is when she stands alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith her fresh unpredictable style, Franchini skewers modern relationships and toxic masculinity, moving effortlessly between humour and heartbreak to tell the story of a woman rebuilding herself on her own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Sea Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51434748084536,"sku":"9781784164805","price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/5803\/3464\/files\/9781784164805.jpg?v=1764682338","url":"https:\/\/www.deadsearecords.co.uk\/products\/shelf-life-livia-franchini","provider":"Dead Sea Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}