{"product_id":"sophie-standing-there","title":"SOPHIE STANDING THERE","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.csDF76FDB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#181B21;font-style:normal;Segoe UI;} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;} .csBE25D54{margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs8130CDB{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#181B21;font-style:normal;Segoe UI;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"csBE25D54\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003eSophie Pattison is such a lovely person. Warm, kind, amazingly positive. She works as a freelance sound technician for literary festivals. She is a massive reader and was recently forced to move house. She is bracingly lonely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs8130CDB\"\u003e*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003e So much so, the absence of others feels like a physical weight, if that makes sense. But then Sophie discovers an author through work, and comes to adore her. Her books, interviews and podcasts, her wisdom and brilliance, her beautiful words. It's like solace and company. It's almost like love. And Sophie would love to meet her, although she never will, obviously. The author would never come to her festival. She's too famous for that. Too brilliant, too beautiful. And in a way, thank goodness, because that would change everything. Sophie's entire life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"csBE25D54\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003eBut ... what if she did?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs8130CDB\"\u003e* \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csDF76FDB\"\u003ealthough she has a best friend called Emma, and an amazing brother. And a husband. But a number of things happened there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books N Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50167308419312,"sku":"9781460760666","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1855\/5830\/files\/9781460760666_1.jpg?v=1785471379","url":"https:\/\/booksngifts.com.au\/products\/sophie-standing-there","provider":"Books N Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}