{"product_id":"we-were-forbidden","title":"We Were Forbidden","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of I Who Have Never Known Men comes a startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, each plumbing the depths of that most necessary human defiance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWandering the forest in the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their march through its strange depths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs part of her rigid shcooling, a teenage girl is barred from questioning the dogma she is taught to believe – her punishment for doing so will be as disturbing as it is disproportiante.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocked in a loveless marriage, a young woman satisfies her husband’s desires, twice-weekly, as directed. She has not yet thought to pursue her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn varying ways, and across varying worlds, each of these women are trapped. Do they have the will to escape?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRIEF classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51385056821471,"sku":"9781529984583","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781529984583.jpg?v=1789350379","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/we-were-forbidden","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}