{"product_id":"what-becomes-1","title":"A.L. Kennedy: What Becomes [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human compassion and leaps of black humour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the winner of the Costa Book Award for \u003ci\u003eDay\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kennedy, A.L.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49049489539411,"sku":"XV80099494065","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kennedy-a-l-what-becomes-xv80099494065-57542878036307.jpg?v=1726427834","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/what-becomes-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}