{"product_id":"carolines-bikini-1","title":"Caroline's Bikini","description":"'Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a swirling cocktail of infatuation, obsession, and imagination.\n\nThe moment that Emily's friend Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford - a glamorous former horsewoman, and now housewife, hostess, and landlady - there is a 'PING!' At least, that's how Evan describes it to Emily when he persuades her to record his story: the story of falling into unrequited love, which is as old as Western literature itself. Thus begins a hypnotic series of conversations set against the beguiling backdrop of West London's bars, fuelled in intensity by endless G\u0026amp;Ts and Q\u0026amp;As. From the depths of mid-winter to July's hot swelter, Emily's narration of Evan's passion for Caroline will take him to the brink of his own destruction.\n\nWritten in a voice so playful, so charismatic, and so thoughtfully aware of the responsibilities of fiction it can only be by Kirsty Gunn, Caroline's Bikini is a swooning portrait of courtly love - in a modern world not celebrated for its restraint and abstraction. Ready. Steady. Go!","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39667924402261,"sku":"9780571339327N","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/4a783fc9-ec81-4e1b-bda0-3a4c9ca9023a.jpg?v=1644248479","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/carolines-bikini-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}