{"product_id":"theres-no-turning-back","title":"There's No Turning Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from Italian by Ann Goldstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRome, 1934. Eight young women are living together in a convent boarding house called the Grimaldi — studying, hiding, falling in love, nursing secrets, waiting to find out who they'll be. The nuns provide a fragile boundary between them and a city that is visibly reorganising itself around Mussolini. By the end of the book, that boundary (and much else) will be gone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe Céspedes's debut novel was published in 1938 and went through twenty editions before the fascist government banned it. That they took so long is remarkable: this is a book that looks, with clear eyes, at what it costs to be a woman in a world run by men and offers no comfortable resolutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe translation has its own story. Ann Goldstein worked from the 1966 revised edition, the text de Céspedes herself considered final — meaning this English version is not just a translation but the fullest form the novel ever took. One of the more quietly significant publishing events of 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unfaithful Bookshop ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57054986699135,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0986\/5763\/2639\/files\/getimage-32-scaled.jpg?v=1772473216","url":"https:\/\/unfaithfulbookshop.co.uk\/products\/theres-no-turning-back","provider":"The Unfaithful Bookshop ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}