{"product_id":"the-clothes-on-their-backs-1","title":"The Clothes on Their Backs","description":"In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle S?ndor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?\r\nThis is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live. \r\nSet against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.","brand":"Linda Grant","offers":[{"title":"Little, Brown \/ 07 Feb 2008 \/ 204","offer_id":53497884475733,"sku":"9781844085415","price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9781844085415.webp?v=1773846605","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/the-clothes-on-their-backs-1","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}