{"product_id":"9781442948754","title":"Red Pottage","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband). Hester, a novelist, lives with her judgmental brother, the pompous vicar of the fictional village of Warpington. Hester's brother disapproves of her writing and eventually burns the manuscript of a novel she has been writing. \"I will break it off,\" says Hugh Scarlett to himself. \"Thank Heaven, not a soul has ever guessed it.\" He thinks of the day he first met her, when he looked upon her as merely a pretty woman. He recalls their other days together, and the gradual building up between them of a fairy palace. He added a stone here, she a stone there -- until suddenly it became a prison. Had he been tempter, or tempted? He cannot say. He wants only to be out of it. His infatuation has run its course. His judgment has been whirled -- he tells himself it had been whirled, but had it really only been tweaked? -- from its center. It performed its giddy orbit, and now the check-string has brought it back to the point from whence it had set out -- namely, that she is merely a pretty woman. Yet nothing in life is simple. Lord Newhaven suspects -- or more than suspects: for he introduces the modern equivalent of the duel! And Hugh has had a vision of hope for the future, in a sympathetic soul -- in the eyes of Rachel West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ReadHowYouWant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154707267824,"sku":"9781442948754","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442948754_p0.jpg?v=1763809489","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442948754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}