{"product_id":"farangi-girl","title":"Farangi Girl","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAshley Dartnell''s mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners was rich and privileged. But somehow it didn''t all add up to a fairytale. There were bankruptcies and prisons, betrayals and lovers, lies and evasions. And throughout it all, Ashley''s passionate and strong-willed mother, Genie. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStories of mothers and daughters are some of the most compelling in contemporary memoir, from \u003ci\u003eThe Liar''s Club \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eDon''t Let''s Go to the Dogs Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBad Blood\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eFarangi Girl\u003c\/i\u003e deserves to be in their company. It''s an honest and endlessly recognisable portrait of a mother by a daughter who loved her (and was loved in return).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst this extraordinary background, Ashley''s journey into adulthood was more helter-skelter than most and this portrait of a bewitching and endlessly inventive mother is surprising and deeply moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484380864885,"sku":"9781444714715","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781444714715.jpg?v=1786266454","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/farangi-girl","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}