{"product_id":"lost-on-me-1","title":"Lost on Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA delightfully funny Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. \u003c\/span\u003eAs she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she falls in love\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e – \u003c\/span\u003erepeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs she continues to plot escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer – and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity. Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own). Deceptively simple, its tenderness offset by moments of cool brutality, Lost on Me is a masterwork of human observation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by Leah Janeczko.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Veronica Raimo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45286721618177,"sku":"9780349017693","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/SIMPLEWEBSITEPRODUCTIMAGE_72.png?v=1718117763","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/lost-on-me-1","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}