{"product_id":"9781398504899","title":"All's Well - Mona Awad","description":"'A dazzling wild ride of a novel - daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical.  Mona Awad is a powerful and poetic storyteller, telling us something new and profound here about the connection between suffering and elation.  When I was away from this book, I longed to get back to it.'\u003cb\u003e -\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eGeorge Saunders, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Wild and exhilarating and so fresh it takes your breath away, \u003ci\u003eAll's Well\u003c\/i\u003e is an utterly delicious novel of pain and vitality, Shakespeare and the uncanny, and our own subtle moral failures when we brush up against the pain of others. Mona Awad's talent is so vital that it absolutely roars out of her. ' \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eLauren Groff, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Tragic, macabre, and wicked. I laughed out loud the whole way through. One of the funniest books I've read in years.' \u003cb\u003e-  Heather O'Neill, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Hearts Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eAll's Well That Ends Well\u003c\/i\u003e, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That's when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda's past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what's coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that's kept her from the spotlight is made known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With prose Margaret Atwood has described as 'no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius,' Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. \u003ci\u003eAll's Well \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44730795524323,"sku":"9781398504899","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781398504899.jpg?v=1712673338","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781398504899","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}