{"product_id":"grit-in-the-pearl-hb-w3","title":"Lyndsy Spence: GRIT IN THE PEARL - W3 [2019] hardback","description":"Margaret, Duchess of Argyll's life was one of complexity and controversy. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, the only child of a Scottish self-made millionaire and a beautiful high-society woman, her childhood was rich and splendid - but empty. She was a daddy's girl with an absent father, living with a jealous mother who sought to remind Margaret of her every shortcoming. As she grew up, her name was a byword for class and beauty; she was the debutante of her coming-out year, and her marriage to Charles Sweeny literally stopped traffic.\u003cbr\u003eBut it was not to last: Margaret needed more.\u003cbr\u003eWhat followed was a story of tragedy, scandal and heartbreak as Margaret swung from lover to lover, society to society. This culminated in her notorious divorce case of 1963, where her soon-to-be-ex-husband produced his pie`ce de resistance: a Polaroid of her in a compromising position with two other men.\u003cbr\u003eIn The Grit in the Pearl, Lyndsy Spence takes a look at a woman who was ahead of her time. Using previously unpublished sources and personal transcripts, this is the story of a fragile woman who was to come up against the very highest echelons of English high society - and lose.","brand":"Spence, Lyndsy","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44354816180514,"sku":"9780750986991","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/spence-lyndsy-grit-in-the-pearl-hb-w3-9780750986991-40418404008226.jpg?v=1674585353","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/grit-in-the-pearl-hb-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}