{"product_id":"almost-a-love-story","title":"Almost a Love Story","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eErin is a homemaker who hasn’t read a book in a long time.\nBut that changes when Wendell—now a published author—returns after twelve\nyears. Once, they shared a creative partnership: he wrote, she took notes,\ntheir closeness defined by the things they never said. But when Erin begins to\nread his novel—about a professor and his amanuensis—she sees shadows of herself\non the page. The more she reads, the more the boundaries between fact and\nfiction blur. Conversations restart, old wounds reopen and the past reshapes\nthe present in quiet, irreversible ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAfter twelve years abroad, acclaimed novelist Wendell An\nLing returns home and reconnects with Erin, once his devoted amanuensis, now\nmarried, who has abandoned reading. Their reunion stirs memories of a creative\npartnership fraught with unspoken tensions, mirrored in Wendell’s latest novel\nabout a professor and his note-taker. As Wendell and Erin navigate their\ntangled history, the lines between past and fiction blur, revealing a layered\nexploration of love, power and the fragile boundaries between life and\nliterature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarissa Foo\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and literary critic. She\nwrites scholarly articles and fiction. She is the author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf It\nWere Up to Mrs Dada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2018) and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat We Learned from\nDriving in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"APD (S) PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44907708514511,"sku":"9789815105988","price":22.78,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_ca0f8b7f-2a0d-4bab-a38e-147663ba4df6.webp?v=1773303185","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/almost-a-love-story","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}