{"product_id":"9781409120025","title":"Life with the Lid Off","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike many women after a divorce, Nicola Hodgkinson found herself facing a stark reality. With three young children to raise, a ramshackle cottage by the sea she had a choice: to wallow in self pity or pull herself together and get on with it. She chose the latter. And with her choice came the decision to embrace a more casual approach to parenting, convinced as she was that fresh air, a positive outlook and the freedom to learn from mistakes would be good for the whole family. And so life with the lid off, began. This is a book about all the magic, and the chaos, of family existence. Steering her way through village life, Nicola discovers the hazards that solo domesticity can bring, from a disgraced cat sailing through the window into a jam-and-scone cottage tea sale, to a car which acquires a resident mouse. Constantly surrounded by a haphazard menagerie, along the way we meet a spirit donkey, a pig with empty-nest syndrome and a lot of quails. As Nicola learns to muddle through, and even delight in, a less than perfect existence, \u003ci\u003eLife with the Lid Off\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, profound, and funny evocation of a universal theme: how to find yourself again amongst the hurly burly sandwich of family life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041057816816,"sku":"9781409120025","price":15.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781409120025_p0.jpg?v=1763720388","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781409120025","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}