{"product_id":"room-for-a-single-lady","title":"Clare Boylan: Room For A Single Lady [1998] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A sharp eye for detail that makes reading Boylan's work such a pleasure' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Eugene Rafferty, girls are like money - they have to be saved.  Despite living in 1950s Dublin, his three daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood.  However, as fortunes decline the Rafferty's are forced to take in lodgers and these independent but eccentric outsiders introduce the girls to new experiences - sex and superstition, of spite, of true love and tragedy.  For in a world caught between the aftershock of the war and the transforming liberalism of the 1960s there are two states of womanhood: single, and caught up in the comic and desperate search for a suitable husband, or married and enduring the claustrophobia of suburban life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Evoking the magic of childhood and adolescence with rare subtlety, wit and warmth, \u003ci\u003eRoom For A Single Lady\u003c\/i\u003e is both delightfully comic and genuinely moving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boylan, Clare","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47973208621395,"sku":"XG80349109015","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/boylan-clare-room-for-a-single-lady-xg80349109015-55375311765843.jpg?v=1726703952","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/room-for-a-single-lady","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}