{"title":"Books by Tiffany McDaniel","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781474617543","title":"Betty","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in language and plot: beautiful and devastating'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I felt consumed by this book. 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Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters and her father's brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all to which she bears witness - the horrors of her family's past and present - Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204454940850,"sku":"9781474617543","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781474617543.jpg?v=1786020936"},{"product_id":"9781911344360","title":"The Summer That Melted Everything","description":"Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize.    Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy turns up in Breathed claiming to be Satan himself, everybody assumes he is just a runaway. But when strange things start happening to the townsfolk, there are some who start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205799346354,"sku":"9781911344360","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911344360_4a46d569-11be-4b5b-b444-2df85f879166.jpg?v=1786029512"},{"product_id":"9781399606097","title":"On the Savage Side","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'STRIKING, ETHEREAL AND TRANSCENDENT' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'THIS BOOK WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS' \u003c\/b\u003eBRYN GREENWOOD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo heart is safe on the savage side.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an imaginative world of their own, nurtured by their grandmother's stories. But no matter how hard they try, Arc and Daffy can't escape the generational ghosts that haunt their family. And so, left to fend for themselves in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the two sisters cling tight to one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears later, a local woman is discovered dead in the river. 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