{"product_id":"alice-i-have-been-by-melanie-benjamin","title":"Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin","description":"\u003cp\u003eI didn't want this story to disappear: I didn't want the day to end. I didn't want to grow up. 'Write it down', I said finally. 'Please, could you write it down?'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew stories are so universally beloved as Lewis Corroll's Alice In Wonderland. In Alice I Have Been, the girl who inspired a classic at last tells her own extraordinary tale of life beyond the looking glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs bold and imaginative as her storybook character, Alice shares the secrets of a blessed childhood in Oxford, where as the precocious daughter of the dean, she is pampered by everyone, including shy, stuttering academic, Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in one fateful moment, when she begs her grown-up friend to write down one of his wild and fanciful stories of talking rabbits, mad hatters and a fearless little girl, her life is changed forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the unconventional young woman who catches the eyes of a prince, wife and mother of three soldiers to grieving widow, she is, ever and always, thought of as Alice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking back at the childhood mystery that took a lifetime to solve and her tumultuous love life, Alice at last discovers - and embraces - the woman she became when she outgrew Wonderland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43766346940490,"sku":"2991ak","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2991ak.jpg?v=1782969224","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/alice-i-have-been-by-melanie-benjamin","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}