{"product_id":"what-a-time-to-be-alive-9781399740838","title":"What A Time To Be Alive","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jenny Mustard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Playful and witty, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat A Time To Be Alive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a charming meditation on coming-of-age, privilege, and grief' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCecile Pin, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWandering Souls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Jenny Mustard writes with honesty and wit about the strange, mundane, and wondrous aspects of youth'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAyÅŸegül SavaÅŸ, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Anthropologists\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A beautifully plangent coming-of-age novel . . . will go straight to your heart'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucy Caldwell, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThese Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A timeless writer . . . reminiscent of the power and grace of writers like Rachel Cusk and Raven Leilani'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMolly Aitken, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBright I Burn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSome people move to the big city hoping to find themselves - Sickan Hermansson isn't leaving it up to chance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-one, friendless, without money but not without hope, Sickan's arrival at Stockholm University represents a new start. Her lonely childhood in a small southern town has left her utterly unprepared for intimacy: for friends, for sex, for love even. But Sickan is determined to build a new version of herself from the ground up, to make up for lost time. To simply be normal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust as Sickan seems to be finding her first ever friends, in whose company she finally feels safe, she meets Abbe: beautiful, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too. Unlike Sickan, Abbe seems completely at ease in his own skin. A solid foundation then, on which to build a relationship? Maybe?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat A Time To Be Alive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a story of class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. But above all, it's a story of firsts: the first party you're actually invited to, the first moment you fall in love, the first time you betray a friend. The first time you ask yourself, how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice, to finally fit in?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45608534179991,"sku":"9781399740838","price":1404.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781399740838.webp?v=1769294543","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/what-a-time-to-be-alive-9781399740838","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}