{"product_id":"a-girl-left-the-room","title":"Girl Left the Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt her father's art exhibition, fourteen-year-old Tanja is introduced to Eg. Handsome and grey-eyed, he is a friend of her parents, a man who makes his living with words and sees something extraordinary in her. Soon, letters begin to arrive at her home in the Swedish forest. Pages spinning a private fairytale dreamed up just for her, inviting Tanja into a love that promises escape from her lonely childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when the two finally meet, Tanja steps through a door into an adult experience from which there is no return, where desire and excitement soon give way to shame and control. Years later, now a poet herself and armed with the language to name what happened, she uncovers a box of Eg's letters coated with mildew and begins to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHauntingly lyrical and fearlessly honest, \u003ci\u003eA Girl Left the Room \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about a relationship of intense connection, unequal power and one woman's defiant effort to reclaim the girl she once was.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557630545985,"sku":"9781805333821","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/3179\/3984\/files\/9781805333821.jpg?v=1790661590","url":"https:\/\/qagoma.store\/products\/a-girl-left-the-room","provider":"QAGOMA Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}