{"product_id":"9780007163106","title":"My Invented Country : A Memoir by Isabel Allende","description":"The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's favourite writers - is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.             Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents' home in Chile. She left school at 16; and married Miguel Fr?as at 19. She then juggled her work as a journalist, editor, advice columnist and television interviewer with looking after her two children.             But when her cousin the Chilean president Salvador Allende was assassinated in 1973 in Pinochet's right-wing military coup, her life changed profoundly. It was too dangerous to stay in Chile; and she, her husband, and their two children fled to Venezuela. During her impoverished exile, she started writing `The House of the Spirits'. Based on her memories of her family and the political upheaval in her native country, it became an international bestseller and everything changed again.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56219829109109,"sku":"9780007163106","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780007163106.jpg?v=1762185410","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780007163106","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}