{"product_id":"waiting-for-ted-marieke-bigg","title":"Waiting for Ted — Marieke Bigg","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“After all these years, I was surprised to find that we were still in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eprocess of trying to assemble two fully self-sustaining parts into one.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eWAITING FOR TED charts the destruction of Rosalind and Ted’s relationship at the hands of an expensive chaise longue. Rosie comes from a wealthy, upperclass background. She dreams of being a traditional housewife to her big strong working man, cooking, tending the house and instagramming her perfect life. But she also needs to fill her house with things that she can Instagram, so when Ted bans her from spending any more of her father’s money on her ‘work’ as an interior design influencer until she’s actually earning, she begins to scheme – only to watch her schemes unravel, and the rest of her life with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eTold in a series of reflections over the course of an evening spent waiting for Ted, Rosie charts her relationship’s downfall, how she drifted from her only friend (who she never really liked anyway), how she contributed to the breakdown in her parents’ marriage, how she never really let Ted into her perfect world, how she drove them to their spectacular breakdown, and as she does it becomes increasingly clear to the reader that Ted may not be coming home at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarieke Bigg studied her PhD on the social history of IVF at Cambridge\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity and is the author of non-fiction title Misdiagnosed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhich considers how medicine has failed the female body.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting for Ted is her debut fiction novel.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Ink Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53024569622865,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6907\/1697\/files\/9781915368003.jpg?v=1770815958","url":"https:\/\/deadinkbooks.com\/products\/waiting-for-ted-marieke-bigg","provider":"Dead Ink Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}