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    "description": "<p><span>The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF</span><span><br /><br />Dublin, 7 October 2019<br /><br />One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world won't make space for you, to be with yourself?<br /><br />Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge.<br /><br />For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.<br /><br />RUTH &amp; PEN is the fictional debut from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF. Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.</span></p>",
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