{"product_id":"the-shampoo-effect","title":"The Shampoo Effect","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Read With Jenna Book Club pick — a frothy novel of love, money, sex and friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePineapple Street\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, Massachusetts, she falls head over heels for Van Whittaker: a fleece-wearing, deeply local environmental conservationist who seems almost too good to be true. Van folds her into the close-knit group of friends he has had since high school — a circle that includes his on-again, off-again ex, Bailey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Bailey discovers she is pregnant with Van's child, and the group's careful equilibrium collapses. Caroline is cast out of the circle, and what she does next — in a potent mix of fury and heartbreak — exposes long-held secrets and works the entire town of Greenhead into a lather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaving behind the rarefied Brooklyn of her debut for the coast she grew up on, Jackson has written a story of late-night parties and early mornings with small children, of the dawn of midlife, and of a friend group discovering that growing up was never optional.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePraise\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The platonic ideal of a beach read: fun and fast-paced… In \u003cem\u003ePineapple Street\u003c\/em\u003e, Jackson brought us into the storied world of Brooklyn Heights; here, she delivers us to the land of clam rolls with the same anthropological eye.”\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cstrong\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A frothy, exuberant book.”\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cstrong\u003ePeople\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Delightfully satisfying.”\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cstrong\u003eNPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Unexpected pregnancies, marital revelations, sibling rivalries… presented with great humour and profound wistfulness. I loved this novel. You will, too.”\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cstrong\u003eChris Bohjalian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJenny Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePineapple Street\u003c\/em\u003e. She is Vice President and Editorial Director of Fiction at Alfred A. Knopf — a working editor as well as a novelist — and grew up on the Massachusetts coast that this book returns to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePerfect for readers of\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePineapple Street\u003c\/em\u003e, Elin Hilderbrand, Curtis Sittenfeld — a proper summer novel with more underneath it than the cover suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Random House)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52116965753048,"sku":"9781529155235","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/9781529155235.jpg?v=1785541452","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/the-shampoo-effect","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}