{"product_id":"how-to-be-somebody-else-miranda-pountney-9781529933390","title":"How to Be Somebody Else","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn uncoming-of-age in New York City\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Has literary oomph' \u003c\/b\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An impressive debut novel'\u003c\/b\u003e OBSERVER \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Intelligent, confident and original' \u003c\/b\u003eTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Spring 2015, New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible - a life in New York, eight years of making this stick. And yet it is not the thing she'd imagined (what had she imagined?). When she walks out of her career, then apartment, and into a housesit for an artist she's never met, she does not tell her friends, her parents back in England, or Matt, her boyfriend, living on the West Coast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Job-free, rent-free, she'll make good on her book, herself, other things too, she's thinking, when her neighbor Kate shows up and invites her to a party. There she meets Gabe, who happens to be married to Kate but insists, 'it's not a thing'. The affair that follows consumes her and she begins to consider what is fixed and what is variable. Can a person be both? Is Gabe the thing he seems? Is she? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As spring turns to summer, her experiments in living test loyalties and boundaries until an unexpected encounter between the two couples forces her to confront her future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant... Luscious prose' \u003c\/b\u003eANNIE LORD \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Unsettling and original' \u003c\/b\u003eTESSA HADLEY \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***A MARIE CLAIRE BEST BOOK OF 2024***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miranda Pountney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1529933390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781529933390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Miranda Pountney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175424831743,"sku":"9781529933390","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e86dc9e-b4a5-4db2-b8e7-561aecaa884a.jpg?v=1771333652","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-be-somebody-else-miranda-pountney-9781529933390","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}