{"product_id":"the-winter-guest","title":"The Winter Guest","description":"\u003cp\u003eJanice is a widow in her 70s. This Christmas, with family elsewhere, she is off to spend Christmas at a friend's hotel in the West of Ireland. She finds herself the only guest, until a man appears, having arrived by boat. They share dinner on Christmas Eve. When she asks him to tell his story he says 'I'd have to kill you if I told you', and Janice, having heard men say things like this before, calls his bluff: they agree to tell each other the worst thing they've ever done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe, it turns out, committed a huge financial crime at Christmas twenty-five years ago and has been on the run ever since but has come back to see his mother, who lives locally and has been given a terminal diagnosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Janice has a story of her own to tell. But can we trust her? And should this man be so careless with his own story, even if it is Christmas Eve . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TDLC Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51387208892639,"sku":"9781037412172","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781037412172.jpg?v=1789360467","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-winter-guest","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}