{"product_id":"bohemian-girl-1","title":"Bohemian Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bohemian Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), Frances Vernon's fourth novel, transports us to 1890s London to meet the young Diana Blentham, whom Vernon first introduced to readers - as a celebrated \u003ci\u003egrande horizontale\u003c\/i\u003e - in the opening pages of her 1982 debut \u003ci\u003ePrivileged Children\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiana fears that the lot of an intelligent woman is to simply be married and never again open a book. Her father wonders - not incorrectly - if Diana's brains may lead her 'to some grave lapse in good behaviour'. So it comes to pass one day when, riding on her bicycle in Battersea Park, she knocks over a handsome Irish painter...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A pretty, witty little parable about Victorian values, and the hazards of being female and intelligent in a country as sexist and anti-intellectual as the United Kingdom... This romance has teeth... it bites the eternal issues of class, and sex, and freedom.' Philip Howard, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243639132504,"sku":"9780571321612","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571321612_acb0e6e7-e7f3-419a-a7b8-07e81048617c.jpg?v=1765958425","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bohemian-girl-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}