{"product_id":"first-day-of-spring-by-nancy-tucker-paperback-2026227996","title":"First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eSo that was all it took, I thought. That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn't so much after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChrissie knows how to steal sweets from the shop without getting caught, the best hiding place for hide-and-seek, the perfect wall for handstands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow she has a new secret. It gives her a fizzing, sherbet feeling in her belly. She doesn't get to feel power like this at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen years later, Julia is trying to mother her five-year-old daughter, Molly. She is always worried - about affording food and school shoes, about what the other mothers think of her. Most of all she worries that the social services are about to take Molly away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's when the phone calls begin, which Julia is too afraid to answer, because it's clear the caller knows the truth about what happened all those years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it's time to face the truth: is forgiveness and redemption ever possible for someone who has killed?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOther Information:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nancy Tucker is a trainee Clinical Psychologist. Her memoir of her childhood struggle with anorexia, The Time in Between, was published in 2015. Her follow-up, That Was When People Started to Worry, an examination of young women's mental health, was published in 2018. The First Day of Spring is her first work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ASDA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48324555243758,"sku":"STO-ITEM-2026-227996","price":9.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/0125\/9183\/files\/9781529156478_T1.jpg?v=1784150817","url":"https:\/\/mcgrocer.com\/products\/first-day-of-spring-by-nancy-tucker-paperback-2026227996","provider":"McGrocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}