{"product_id":"9781908026644","title":"Circle of Deceit","description":"Why does a respectable former Professor of English, happily married to a faithful wife for 35 years, suddenly at the age of 71 have an affair with a 54-year-old local Scots woman? He meets her while attending church in his local Church of Scotland-after he had delivered part of the sermon. She is an alcoholic and had come to the church slightly tipsy, seeking help, lavishly made up and wearing a revealing outfit showing a lot of cleavage.\u003cbr\u003eThe novel is a slice of life that affords an insight into the resourceful and rationalising minds of the habitual 'sinner' and the recovering alcoholic-minds to which hiding the truth, re-inventing the truth or justifying lies comes all too easily. 'Thinking on one's feet' and a ready recourse to deceit are ingrained survival strategies, if not automatic instincts of the alcoholic mind.","brand":"Diadem Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049410609392,"sku":"9781908026644","price":13.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908026644_p0.jpg?v=1763620012","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908026644","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}