{"product_id":"9781921825576","title":"Free to a Good Home","description":"Catherine Deveny on marriage, megachurches, plastic surgery, private schools, strip clubs, Sexpo, \u003ci\u003eHey Hey It’s Saturday\u003c\/i\u003e and much, much more … \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Take two reality pills and call me in the morning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Swine Flu. Financial meltdown. It’s been a bad year for pigs and pigs in suits. The only thing for it is a good dose of Catherine Deveny, who each week in the \u003ci\u003eAge\u003c\/i\u003e puts everything into perspective with her trademark iconoclastic wit. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFree to a Good Home\u003c\/i\u003e includes her thoughts on gifted children and breakfast television, sexy billboards and the bill of rights. She reflects on her youngest child’s first day at school, and on how to be happy in hard times. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fearlessly funny and always provocative, Deveny is the perfect antidote to the modern world’s ills. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCan anyone explain why I did this? I went to the chemist and bought this crap I put on my face to make me look younger. I put the jar on the counter. The chemist girl said, ‘Is this stuff any good?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ She said, ‘Really?’ I said, ‘I’m sixty.’ Eyes like saucers, mouth agape, she gasped, ‘OH MY GOD! Sixty! Toula! Fatima! Kelly! Come and check out this old lady. She’s sixty!’ So the other chemist girls scurried over and after a bit of oohing and aahing one said, ‘Oh my God! Sixty? You look like you’re forty-five!’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I’m forty. Chemist girls, one. Smart-arse, zero.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163615903984,"sku":"9781921825576","price":17.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921825576_p0.jpg?v=1763632568","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921825576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}