{"product_id":"madeleine-dunnigan-jean","title":"Madeleine Dunnigan: Jean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDaunt Books, 2026, softcover, 256 pages, 13 x 19 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSet over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a secret intimacy, one defined as much by violence as by friendship and desire. As the boys’ connection deepens, so too does the risk that surrounds it. Jean – son of a single mother, Jewish, on a scholarship, forever an outsider – wonders whether the relationship might offer a way out of a life marked by alienation. But what if the only true path to freedom is to disappear altogether?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpellbinding and evocative, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJean\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heartrending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57606153863552,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/81Z_qSybdeL._SY522.jpg?v=1773760547","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/madeleine-dunnigan-jean","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}