{"product_id":"the-cost-of-living-kathleen-farrell-dnsc-aprn-acnp-ccns-ccrn-9781405988766","title":"The Cost of Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover your new favourite forgotten female classics with the Mermaid collection - No 6- Kathleen Farrell's The Cost of Living with a foreword by Jane Fallon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdealistic Alexandra is throwing a party to meet a more glamorous crowd. Marianne, more sardonic, worries it'll be the usual sort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe party is in Alexandra's attic flat. Marianne will contribute a few bottles of red optimistically labelled Bordeaux. Can it be judged a success? There's Donald the bus conductor with high-brow dreams, nervous bespectacled Bernhardt and Marius the ghostwriter. Not to mention a brace of Peters. It's left to sexy, young Pisa and riotous, middle-aged Mummy (neither invited) to steal the show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet, after the party both Marianne and Alexandra find themselves caught in unexpected - sometimes far from romantic - relationships. Meeting people, it turns out, has the most peculiar consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIs that really the cost of living?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathleen Farrell, DNSc, APRN, ACNP, CCNS, CCRN","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49287639859443,"sku":"9781405988766","price":28.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781405988766.jpg?v=1782158299","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-cost-of-living-kathleen-farrell-dnsc-aprn-acnp-ccns-ccrn-9781405988766","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}