{"product_id":"2940157717995","title":"Legerdemain","description":"Sarah and James have left their comfortable urban life to live in a derelict farmhouse in the middle of a field. With their marriage breaking up, the move is intended to be a way forward. However, their problems accelerate alarmingly, fuelled by an array of bizarre and surprising local characters – Clive the sleazy, opportunistic builder, Di the overweight nurse with a waspish sense of humour, Ruby the pathological truth teller, Roberto Raftiche the Italian teacher who maintains a stunned optimism in the face of all the deceit and duplicity around him.\u003cbr\u003eAs things literally fall apart, relationships form and re-form in unexpected ways. The children always draw the short straw. Alcohol is always wonderful and destructive.\u003cbr\u003eLegerdemain is a dark tale of human duplicity and strength with a twist of sardonic humour. Sometimes it is good to by-pass the clamour of now and cast a wary eye back to a time when everyone thought they'd found the answer to life's impossibilities, and of course to remember that failure is always the opportunity to start again intelligently.","brand":"The Bookguild Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115099668720,"sku":"2940157717995","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157717995_p0.jpg?v=1764101660","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157717995","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}