{"product_id":"proceed-with-caution-melanie-wyllie-9780995643109","title":"Proceed With Caution: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from \u003cem\u003eSafer Under the Stairs\u003c\/em\u003e, Melanie Wyllie's acclaimed first volume of short stories published in 2014, \u003cem\u003eProceed with Caution\u003c\/em\u003e features six new stories set in Britain, Europe and America spanning three decades from the end of the Second World War. In her signature cinematic\/poetic style, Melanie Wyllie brings the lives of ordinary people into dramatic relief, from provincial housewives forced to cope with the meagreness of 1950s austerity and the constraints of social mores, to young artists and entrepreneurs struggling to carve a future for themselves in Europe's beleaguered cities. Interconnecting themes explore hopes and dreams ('A Wedding Has Been Arranged', 'Proceed With Caution'), love and loss ('Once Upon A Time', 'The Wind Grows Colder'), devastation, compromise, regret ('Demons Seldom Sleep') psychotic obsession and ruthless ambition ('Scorn'), with understated sensitivity, empathy, shrewdness and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSafer Under the Stairs\u003c\/em\u003e is available from Amazon as a Kindle e-book. \u003cem\u003eProceed with Caution\u003c\/em\u003e can be ordered from all bookshops and online outlets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie Wyllie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0995643105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780995643109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie Wyllie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.66d","brand":"Melanie Wyllie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452598272255,"sku":"9780995643109","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a8e8f22-93eb-4204-978a-ab99e7287e6d.jpg?v=1761929373","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/proceed-with-caution-melanie-wyllie-9780995643109","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}