{"product_id":"this-time-next-year","title":"This Time Next Year","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen her decree absolute arrives in the post with her 50th birthday cards Alison Turner wonders if middle age life can get any worse.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen the highlights of the last year include being told off by the plumber for Ôputting feminine items of hygiene down the lavatoryÕ, and her husband leaving her for a 28-year-old ÔbimboÕ, itÕs easy to understand why Alison exclaims in her diary, ÔI do not want another year like that. I must get a new plumber.Õ \u003cbr\u003e\nBut if the romantic aspect of AlisonÕs life leaves a lot to be desired (including sex, which is something the rest of her family appear to be enjoying) the everyday aspect is full of incident.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a year of well-intentioned ineptitude, as Alison records in her diary, she is thrown out of a pub for the first time in her life, begins to diet eight times (at least), finds out twelve unappealing things about dogs and discovers that first impressions can sometimes be misleading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44365417087137,"sku":"9781471652127","price":25.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1e8p8dne-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1716497566","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/this-time-next-year","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}