{"product_id":"9780993501555","title":"The Journey","description":"The Journey\u003cp\u003eAt the age of seventeen, Mary Harper has already led a full and hectic life; surviving poverty, hardship, and an alcoholic father, to become a beautiful, charismatic and charming young woman. Mary has a job she loves, her first boyfriend, wonderful caring friends and money to spend - at least everything is seemingly perfect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is, until one fateful night when Mary's world comes crashing down around her. Having been brutally raped, she slowly becomes stripped of everything that made her life great - her happiness, freedom, family, friends and finally, her sanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her rapist poisons her father's mind with vicious lies; a now-pregnant Mary gets a diagnosis that will change her life forever and once she's locked up in the lunatic asylum, it seems like she has lost all hope of every living a normal, happy life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat will happen to her child? How will she cope with the violence, abuse and brutal so-called treatments at the lunatic asylum? Will Mary ever be free from the 'Big House'? Will she ever find the love and happiness she deserves and so desperately craves?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the rural region of Kilbarra in the 1930s: The Journey will take you back to a time where life was harder, tougher and much more challenging. Closely following Mary's sad story; the lives of her mother, sister, two brothers and the illegal antics of her alcoholic father; this book will draw you into the lives of these characters and the intriguing ways of this small rural community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Excalibur Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50032407806192,"sku":"9780993501555","price":14.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780993501555_p0.jpg?v=1784247449","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780993501555","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}