{"product_id":"jean","title":"Jean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a secret intimacy, one defined as much by violence as by friendship and desire. As the boys’ connection deepens, so too does the risk that surrounds it. Jean – son of a single mother, Jewish, on a scholarship, forever an outsider – wonders whether the relationship might offer a way out of a life marked by alienation. But what if the only true path to freedom is to disappear altogether?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpellbinding and evocative,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heartrending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Madeleine Dunnigan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57344331383171,"sku":"9781917092722","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/jean.png?v=1770653607","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.com\/products\/jean","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}