{"product_id":"9781786090980","title":"Before My Actual Heart Breaks","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e __________________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Fresh, entertaining, funny and moving'\u003c\/b\u003e RODDY DOYLE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A touching tale of how one woman survives a tough beginning to eventually end up exactly where her heart belongs'\u003c\/b\u003e ANNE GRIFFIN, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen All is Said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e __________________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'If I could go back to being sixteen again, I'd do things differently.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total \u003ci\u003egom\u003c\/i\u003e,' says my best friend Lizzie Magee.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to \u003ci\u003efly\u003c\/i\u003e. She was going to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever After would do for her.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But as a Catholic girl with a B.I.T.C.H. for a Mammy and a silent Daddy, things did not go as she and Lizzie Magee had planned.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now, five children, twenty-five years, an end to the bombs and bullets, enough whiskey to sink a ship and \u003ci\u003eendless\u003c\/i\u003e wakes and sandwich teas later, Mary's alone. She's learned plenty of hard lessons and missed a hundred steps towards the life she'd always hoped for.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Will she finally find the courage to ask for the love she deserves? Or is it too late?","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55070901928279,"sku":"9781786090980","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/25524633482823.jpg?v=1789764553","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/9781786090980","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}