{"product_id":"9781480412354","title":"Female Friends: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom bestselling author Fay Weldon comes the story of three women’s enduring friendship \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey first met as children in 1940s London. Thirty years later, Marjorie, Chloe, and Grace make their way through an almost unrecognizable post-war society, coping with husbands, children, parents, and the messy business of life.      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrapped by her dependency on her tormented screenwriter husband, Chloe finds a novel way of liberating herself from his sexual and domestic oppression. Marjorie, a childless BBC director, is overwhelmed with guilt upon seeing her mother, the woman who abandoned her thirty years earlier, dying in a hospital bed. And egocentric Grace, who lives with a much younger man, her husband having passed away, sacrifices the wellbeing of her son upon the altar of pleasure.  A smart, prescient novel that speaks for a generation of women struggling to find their place in a male-dominated world, \u003ci\u003eFemale Friends\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterwork from a storyteller at the top of her game.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125731475696,"sku":"9781480412354","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480412354_p0.jpg?v=1769893980","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480412354","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}