{"product_id":"9781910859421","title":"A Man Made to Measure","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Dolly Devoy, the brash new girl at Dublin’s Jacob’s Biscuit Factory… \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable Irish saga set over the Easter Uprising and the First World War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDolly Devoy, a bold young Dubliner, has become very sure of herself since being promoted to work in the office of the local biscuit factory. Too sure of herself. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe should be a lord’s daughter, like Alice Delahunt, to be that confident. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor Alice the path looks smooth, with a glittering marriage to a hero of the Somme. But her husband, Stephen, is no hero to Alice, and she covets another. Her unlikely rival for the love of that man? One Dolly Devoy… \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is an age of great passion and, in Dublin, of seething unrest. Love and war leave no one untouched, and in this story of loss and longing, those who survive are changed for ever. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Diney Costeloe, Nadine Dorries and Mary Gibson, \u003ci\u003eA Man Made to Measure\u003c\/i\u003e is an incredibly emotive novel, absorbing and affecting from the get-go.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Extremely moving… a splendid, vigorous, warm-hearted novel’ \u003ci\u003eIrish Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElaine Crowley\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Dublin. She left school at fourteen and became an apprentice tailor. She married a soldier, and they lived in Egypt and Germany, before settling down in Port Talbot, Wales. Elaine had six children and numerous grandchildren. Prior to her highly successful writing career she worked as an Avon lady, a dinner lady, and for the personnel department of British Steel. She is perhaps best known for her novels \u003ci\u003eDreams of Other Days, The Young Wives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Family Cursed\u003c\/i\u003e, all written during her latter years. She died in 2011, in Swansea.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darkwater Syndicate, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151452684528,"sku":"9781910859421","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910859421_p0.jpg?v=1763628136","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910859421","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}