{"product_id":"book-doh3","title":"Sweet Sorrow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A tale of first love that hits all the right notes . . . [it] just might be the sweetest book to brighten your late summer.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e-The Washington Post \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\"Dazzles with wit.\"\u003cem\u003e-People\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eOne Day\u003c\/em\u003e comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love-and how one summer can forever change a life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eOn the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThen\u003c\/em\u003e: Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. He's failing his classes. At home he looks after his depressed father-when surely it should be the other way round-and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn order to spend time with Fran, Charlie must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling: The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare, \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow\u003c\/em\u003e: Charlie can't go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran, his friends, and his former self. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, \u003cem\u003eSweet Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49369973817648,"sku":"BDdoh3","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49369973883184,"sku":"ZEdoh3","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49369973915952,"sku":"ZMdoh3","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [XE]","offer_id":49369973948720,"sku":"XEdoh3","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/doh3-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776140881","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-doh3","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}