{"product_id":"mum-interrupted-maria-meitern-9781919550909","title":"Mum Interrupted: Postcards from a Perfect Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou built the life you were meant to want.\u2028\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSo why aren't you happy?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMum Interrupted: Postcards from a Perfect Life is a literary memoir about identity, belonging, and the invisible cost of fitting in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a Tokyo modelling agency at seventeen to the world of global finance, the expatriate hierarchies of Dubai, the luxury ecosystems of Monaco, and the polished restraint of London, it traces a life shaped by movement, adaptation, and the accumulation of moments across cities and roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross these worlds, a woman learns to read social codes with precision. How to dress, how to speak, how to belong. She masters each environment she enters, and loses something of herself in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a world of polished surfaces and unspoken rules, where ambition disguises itself as discipline, beauty becomes currency, and status is a language everyone pretends not to speak. Wealth shapes the rules, but rarely explains them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA portrait of a life that works, and a self that no longer fully does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLuxury is easy. Belonging is not.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Meitern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1919550909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919550909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Room Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.48d","brand":"Maria Meitern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665649864959,"sku":"9781919550909","price":18.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mum-interrupted-maria-meitern-9781919550909","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}