{"product_id":"iris-and-ruby","title":"Iris And Ruby","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eA gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop\u003cbr\u003e\nThe unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black’s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn’t seen for years.\u003cbr\u003e\nAn unlikely bond develops as Ruby helps Iris document her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, and of her one true love – the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux – whom she lost to the ravages of war.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis lost love shaped Iris’s past – and will affect Ruby’s future in ways they could not have imagined…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eReview\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Rosie Thomas:\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love.’ The Times\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Honest and absorbing, Rosie Thomas mixes the bitter and the hopeful with the knowledge that the human heart is far more complicated than any rule suggests.’ Mail on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Thomas’s novels are beautifully written. This one is a treat.’ Marie Claire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eRosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers The Kashmir Shawl, Sun at Midnight, Iris and Ruby and Constance. Once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45173468725427,"sku":"9780007173532","price":316.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/51y1-CHWkEL.jpg?v=1765448186","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/iris-and-ruby","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}