{"product_id":"good-listener-2","title":"Good Listener","description":"\u003cp\u003eToby is a very plausible young scoundrel: good at winning confidences — and also at staving off troublesome emotions. On the point of leaving Cambridge, he meets Maisie, who is beautiful, tense and vulnerable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She falls in love. He does not. He takes what he can, as young men do. But Maisie tries to force the issue, and he makes off — warned by a friend’s disastrous shotgun marriage. There will always be other girls, more cheerful and just as willing . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And Toby never worries about minor problems like the way separation wounds its victim. The bitter surprises still in store disconcert him only briefly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After all, a good listener will always get by.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘With her characteristic mixture of sense and sensibility, Pamela Hansford Johnson creates a whole gallery of convincing characters, entangled in a web of drifting relationships.’ \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Beautifully rendered . . . memorable settings and lively characters’ \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘The light shining steadily through each page of Pamela Hansford Johnson’s new novel is the light of quality’ \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A stunning performance’ \u003ci\u003eNina Bawden, Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231725670744,"sku":"9781447215462","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781447215462_1050f83d-fb88-41cd-a8a1-eff2e40b5055.jpg?v=1769238043","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/good-listener-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}