{"product_id":"wet-ink","title":"Wet Ink","description":"\u003cb\u003eA story of community strength, embracing ambition, and female desire: Stuck in\r\na loveless marriage in 1969, Mitzy Barlow focuses her attentions on building a Tupperware\r\nempire by slipping erotic short stories in with her orders, accidentally sparking a feminist\r\nrevolution among the housewives of her London suburb as a result.\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\nHousewife and mother of two, Mitzy Barlow is tired of the stifling monotony of her\r\neveryday life. With a husband who brushes off all affection and a routine that leaves her\r\nbored out of her mind, playing pretend is no longer enough.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nTo help make ends meet, she hosts Tupperware parties, selling plastic promises of the\r\nperfect home. But her true escape has always come when scribbling fantasies in her\r\njournal each night to soothe the ache of a loveless marriage.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nSoon she begins typing up her own stories, rewriting the endings of classic novels with\r\nbolder and steamier scenes, much to the delight of the neighborhood women who start\r\nsending in requests of their own. Under the safety of her new pseudonym 'Queen B', Mitzy\r\ncreates an air-tight system to deliver her erotica, slipping stories into Tupperware\r\ncontainers and taking discreet orders at her parties.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nDemand is high, and as her secret career starts to blossom, Mitzy allows herself to dream\r\nof a different kind of life. But when whispers of indecent, unmotherly conduct start to\r\nspread that could put her family's livelihood at risk, is Mitzy too naïve in thinking she can\r\nrewrite the ending of her own story before it's too late?\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nBlending wit, warmth, and rebellion, Wet Ink is a story of desire and embracing\r\nambition, set in 1969 London, in which the indomitable Mitzy Barlow builds a\r\nTupperware empire by slipping erotic short stories in with her orders,\r\naccidentally sparking a feminist revolution among the housewives of her\r\nLondon suburb.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cabout the author\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eAbigail Avis\u003c\/b\u003e is a London-based author with a keen interest in women that fell between the\r\ncracks of the swinging sixties, especially those who initiated domestic revolutions in\r\nsurprising and brilliant ways. Her love of saucy stories began early, sneaking books from\r\nthe adult section of the library as a curious pre-teen and she still proudly uses the\r\nTupperware inherited from her Nan's 1960s party stash. She has two young children, and\r\nstudied and taught English literature before entering a fellowship with the Royal Literary\r\nFund, which facilitated the writing of Wet Ink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/about\u003e","brand":"Abigail Avis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57211170062601,"sku":"9781399759779","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0939\/6181\/4281\/files\/97813997559779.jpg?v=1784633433","url":"https:\/\/bookstation.ie\/products\/wet-ink","provider":"Bookstation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}