{"product_id":"my-only-boy-uk-edition","title":"My Only Boy - UK Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is Elle’s job to predict the future. But even she can’t predict this. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen a desperate worker throws himself off a balcony, it is Elle who has handle the fallout. Comms director for a tech start-up firm called Gigr, which finds casual employment for an increasingly wide range of workers and professionals, it is her job to anticipate and plan for every scenario.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut lately events have started to spin out of her control.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn parliament the political temperature is getting as hot as the weather on the streets outside. If Elle is to ensure her company’s smooth path towards a stock market floatation – a floatation that will provide her and her family with the financial security they so desperately need – she must be prepared to bend to the will of the new extremists in government.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Elle’s personal life, things are hardly less complicated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn an evening so hot that London’s pavements seem to melt, she meets Ed at a house party and immediately the conversation flows. Each exchange feels like an new adventure. It’s inevitable that they fall in love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Elle has dated only women for as long as she can remember and Ed is a writer billed as ‘the great gay novelist of our times.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCan the unexpected attraction Ed and Elle feel for each other last when it presents such a profound challenge to their identity? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd what happens when their sense of self collapses alongside the world around them?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet over the course of an historic year, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Only Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both a once-in-a-lifetime love story and an uncompromising state-of-the-nation thriller that asks universal questions about the compromises we are prepared to make and the lengths to which we are prepared to go obtain the things we desire most.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish Date - 05\/21\/26 - Hardcover UK Edition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54177668694326,"sku":null,"price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-5458.webp?v=1783012491","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/my-only-boy-uk-edition","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}