{"product_id":"levitation-for-beginners","title":"Levitation For Beginners","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Is A Novel About Everything And Nothing, Sour And Melancholy, With Elements Of Sheer Comedy And Almost Unbearable Beauty... The Older Deborah Reflects That IM Surprised Any Of Us Lived To Tell The Tale, And If This Subtle Book Has A Message, It Is How Alien And Yet How Relatable The Past Remains Guardian Book Of The DayA Glorious Writer... Witty, WellObserved And Full Of Heart Irish IndependentA Bittersweet, NostalgiaTinged Adventure... With A Steadily Growing Voltage Daily MailA Deliciously Unsettling Read Clare Chambers, Author Of Small PleasuresLovely Patrick Galea Sharp Eye And Keen Wit Are Brought To Bear On The Secrets And Lies Of A Small Rural Community  Secrets And Lies That May Prove Deadly.ItS 1972 And TenYearOld Deborah Is Living A TenYearOld Life: Butterscotch Angel Delight And Raleigh Chopper Bikes, And Clunk Click, And Crackajack And Jackanory, Layla And The Bee Gees, Flares And Ponchos.But New Girl SarahJayne Breezes Into School, Pretty As A Picture And Full Of Gossip And Speculation, As Well As Unlikely But Thrilling Stories About Levitation. The Other Girls Are Dazzled But Deborah Is Wary And Keeps Her Distance. That Same Week, EighteenYearOld Brickie Sonny Turns Up On Her Doorstep With A Stray Tortoise And Begins An Unlikely Friendship With Her Young Widowed Mum. ThatS Bad Enough, Deborah Thinks, But Then Sonny Starts Work On A Site Opposite The School And SarahJayne Decides HeS The Latest Love Of Her Life. Nothing Escapes SarahJayne, And Deborah Fears What SheLl Make Of Her Mum. ItS Good To Be Different, Her Mum Often Says; But Not, Deborah Knows, Too Different.So, Deborah Changes Tactics, Keeping Her Friends Close And Her Enemy Closer, Even Stepping Up For Some Of SarahJayneS Levitation Sessions. Then SheS Invited To SarahJayneS Lovely House, Where She Meets Her Charming Family And Encounters SarahJayneS Big SisterS Fiance, Max, Which Is When She Senses That All IsnT Quite As It Seems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abacus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47958994321653,"sku":"DADAX0349141355","price":30.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/8158DeKLBEL.jpg?v=1775582677","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/levitation-for-beginners","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}