{"product_id":"9781905796236","title":"In A Word","description":"This book began as a joke (and hopefully still is). It is the result of much hard giggling, bloody scribbling, sweaty pens and tears of laughter.\u003cp\u003eIn A Word was born out of the UKAuthors writers' site (www.ukauthors.com) weekly Prose and Poetry Challenge, in which last week's winner sets the single-word challenge for the following week. Andrea, who has proclaimed on many an occasion that she 'wouldn't know a poem if it jumped up and bit me in the nether regions' [sic], decided to have a go at the challenge. It looks as if she was right, but she became addicted. What we have here is not a collection of poetry in the conventional sense. No sestinas, haiku or sonnets (well, there is a clerihew, of sorts), but a collection of down-to-earth, gritty, humorous (and sometimes not so funny) snippets of observation and situation. In short, In A Word contains everything you need to know about life and the universe, summed up neatly and alphabetically, in one word titles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Duffy or Keats, Lowne has, occasionally, been compared to Pam Ayres. 'Rubbish,' she laughs, 'I don't look anything like Pam! Besides, I'm a Londoner!'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that, as you will see if you buy the book, just about sums it up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UKA Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039291326704,"sku":"9781905796236","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781905796236_p0.jpg?v=1763616269","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781905796236","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}