{"product_id":"a-strange-kind-of-paradise-hearsay-9782956686873","title":"A Strange Kind of Paradise.: Hearsay","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hettie Ashwin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Slipperygrip Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Slipperygrip Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Parenting - Parent \u0026amp; Adult Child\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs a mother's love an unbreakable bond?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune Banner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enever wants to find out. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune came to motherhood later in life, and the one thing she wants is to be the mother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher own mother could never be. That silent promise to be better will lead her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough her son's tumultuous young life until one of them must break. June and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher husband hear about their son's life through others, the hearsay of rumours, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecrets and trouble more than they can stand as parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer son, Mitchell tests her love at every stage of his life, with drugs, police visits, charges of assault and then in a daring move, 'an accident'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenial at the event pitches June into a mother who cannot let go of her son. After all, every child needs their mother, or so she assumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Mitchell finds makes his own way in life, trying to distance himself from his mother, it is a recipe to break his mother's heart. She has sacrificed her life to her child, and to share him might break them both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Mitchell is about to make, what she considers, the biggest mistake of his life, June knows what she must do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ripple\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeffect will make or break not one life, but many.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strange\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ekind of Paradise is a collection of novellas about decisions, big decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46452497612951,"sku":"9782956686873","price":805.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9782956686873.webp?v=1769141099","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-strange-kind-of-paradise-hearsay-9782956686873","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}