{"product_id":"ghosted-3","title":"Ghosted","description":"\u003cp data-lfile-container=\"ee92b56d-982a-4106-b998-96ecfe63635a\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA laid-off Santa and a fired waitress, both sixty-seven, both widowed, end up on the same Christmas cruise. Neither of them knew it was a gay cruise.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilas French has been a department-store Santa for twenty years. This week he got fired. His heart needs a stent, his son hasn't spoken to him in thirteen years, and the only person who still calls is his dead wife's sister, usually to cuss him out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when a cruise line offers him a Santa gig on a Christmas sailing to Miami, he takes it. Miami is close to Joey. Close enough to turn up at the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Gitelman has waited tables at the same New York diner for forty-six years. This week she was let go, told she has lupus, and talked onto a ship by her best friend Julia, who wants to finish the bucket list they wrote at sixteen. Swim with dolphins. Fall in love. Don't die boring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows involves a drag queen, a priest with a sideline in pharmaceuticals, a near-drowning in Nassau, a storm, a helicopter, and the hardest conversation Silas has ever had.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunny, profane and unexpectedly tender, \u003cem\u003eGhosted\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about the people who stop answering, the ones who never leave, and what happens when you're sixty-seven and decide you're not finished yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003cem\u003eA Man Called Ove\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Guncle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spring Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68007784087856,"sku":"9780955988578","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9780955988578.jpg?v=1791811961","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/ghosted-3","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}