{"product_id":"sixty-summers","title":"Sixty Summers","description":"\u003cp\u003eDisenchanted with their lives, three old friends set off on a journey through Europe retracing the steps of a backpacking trip forty years earlier. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLife is too short for compromise ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Maggie, Fran and Rose met in their youth, they had dreams and ambitions. Forty years later, the three friends are turning sixty, each of them restless and disenchanted with their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFran works in a second-hand bookshop. Her lover, one of a long line of disappointing men, is drifting away and her future is uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaggie married into a volatile family. Her beautiful, indulged twin daughters are causing havoc and her elderly mother-in-law has moved in and is taking charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRose has been an off-sider for her hopelessly vague but academically brilliant husband and their two sons. Time is running out to find and fulfil her own ambitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an attempt to recapture the sense of freedom and purpose they once possessed, they decide to retrace the steps of their 1978 backpacking trip through Europe and set off on an odyssey that will test their friendship, challenge their beliefs and redefine the third age of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amanda Hampson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43016083898537,"sku":"9780143792109","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/sixt.jpg?v=1680920491","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/sixty-summers","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}