{"product_id":"9781398565173","title":"Wild Card","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sleepwalkers, The Runner \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe End of Mr Y. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ecomes the most extraordinary memoir about how a novelist’s mid-life crisis morphed into an improbable quest to play at Wimbledon. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt forty-one, Scarlett Thomas was a successful novelist and senior academic. She’d quit smoking, got healthier, settled down in a lovely house with a wonderful partner. She’d had all the therapy. Then her beloved dog died, her parents got ill and she realised she was never going to become a mother. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife had suddenly become an all-too serious business. She was supposed to grow up, but she didn’t know how. So instead, she set herself a gloriously improbable goal: to return to the sport she’d loved as a child, train harder than she’d ever trained before and somehow earn the chance to play at Wimbledon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeartbreaking, hilarious and unputdownable, \u003ci\u003eWild Card\u003c\/i\u003e is the extraordinary story of one woman's unique approach to dealing with middle-age that poses the question we have all at some point pondered: is it ever too late to make your dreams come true?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Scarlett Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Muriel Spark’s disreputable niece’ \u003ci\u003eSpectator \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘She's a genius’ Douglas Coupland","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":49027718316257,"sku":"9781398565173","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/0956\/0289\/files\/9781398565173.jpg?v=1793715890","url":"https:\/\/simon-and-schuster-dev.myshopify.com\/products\/9781398565173","provider":"Simon and Schuster Dev","version":"1.0","type":"link"}