{"product_id":"import-abc28c2f-152e-466f-9582-68ffb588fa36","title":"A Bigger Life","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'\u003cem\u003eEat Pray Love\u003c\/em\u003e for the Hinge era' - \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times Style\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when you stop trying to be the woman everyone wants you to be, and start asking what you want instead?\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eAt 38, Louise O'Neill had the life she thought she wanted. The relationship. The home. The future. Then it all ended, taking with it not only the life she had built, but her certainty about what a successful, happy life was supposed to look like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eHeartbroken but restless, Louise decided not to rebuild the same life all over again. Inspired by her father's advice to go out and live a bigger life, she \u003cstrong\u003ebegan saying yes\u003c\/strong\u003e. To risk. To desire. To adventure. To the possibility that there might be another way to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eWhat followed was an \u003cstrong\u003eextraordinary dating odyssey across Paris, London and New York\u003c\/strong\u003e, meeting a different man each night. The stories are outrageous, intimate and frequently hilarious, but the men are only the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eBecause as Louise steps outside the life she thought she was supposed to want, she begins to question the rules that got her there in the first place. Why are women still taught to make themselves smaller, easier and more pliable to be loved? Why are we so frightened of ageing? How do we measure success when marriage and motherhood are no longer inevitable milestones? What has modern dating done to intimacy? And what does it mean to desire men at a moment when masculinity itself feels increasingly contested?\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eTurning her trademark sharp, fearless eye on \u003cstrong\u003eageing, beauty, sex, motherhood, modern masculinity, loneliness, ambition and the pressure to settle\u003c\/strong\u003e, Louise examines the contradictions of being a woman today while implicating herself in every one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eFearlessly honest, fiercely intelligent and laugh-out-loud funny, \u003cem\u003eA Bigger Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir about what happens when you stop shrinking yourself to fit the life you've been given and asks us all to reflect on the question at the heart of the book: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat does it really mean to live a bigger life?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eReaders can't resist falling in love with this extraordinary book:\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e'A groundbreaking shift in how we talk about \u003cstrong\u003ewomen, love and relationships\u003c\/strong\u003e' - Marian Keyes\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written with generosity, candour, intelligence and wit. \u003cem\u003eA Bigger Life\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us all that hope exists, if we are \u003cstrong\u003ebrave enough to open our hearts\u003c\/strong\u003e to finding it' - Elizabeth Day\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e'[This book is] so fierce, and so tender! There's so much compassion there, it's utterly captivating, profound and it's \u003cstrong\u003every, very funny\u003c\/strong\u003e' - Daisy Buchanan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback | 336 pages | Published September 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66028320817420,"sku":"9780008762506","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780008762506.jpg?v=1792496197","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/import-abc28c2f-152e-466f-9582-68ffb588fa36","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}