{"product_id":"slingshot-1","title":"Mercedes Helnwein: Slingshot [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcidly funny and compulsively readable, Mercedes Helnwein's debut novel \u003ci\u003eSlingshot\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, friendship, stupidity, sex, bad poetry, and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrace Welles had resigned herself to the particular loneliness of being fifteen and stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, when she accidentally saves the new kid in her class from being beaten up. With a single aim of a slingshot, the monotonous mathematics of her life are obliterated forever...because now there is a boy in it that she never asked for. Wade Scholfield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Wade, Grace discovers a new way to exist. School rules are optional, life is bizarrely perfect, and conversations about wormholes can lead to make-out sessions that disrupt any logical stream of thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo why does Grace crush Wade's heart into a million tiny pieces? And what are her options when she finally realizes that 1. The universe doesn't revolve around her, and 2. Wade has been hiding a dark secret? Is Grace the only person unhinged enough to save him?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleanor and Park meets Ladybird in this outstanding debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helnwein, Mercedes","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50732277334355,"sku":"9781529058185","price":11.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47085610041683,"sku":"XV81529058185","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/helnwein-mercedes-mercedes-helnwein-slingshot-2021-paperback-1154632589.jpg?v=1743967177","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/slingshot-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}