{"product_id":"rippa-young-pilgrim","title":"RIPPA! Young Pilgrim","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJoey Rippa is one of the most naturally gifted footballers England's Second Division has ever seen. He's also one of the least interested in that fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWhen Plymouth Argyle's pre-season tour brings him back to Australia, Rippa arrives late, sunburnt, and carrying an impressive holiday paunch. His long-suffering manager Bobby Noll - the man who discovered him surfing a wave in Western Australia and somehow turned him into Plymouth's Player of the Year - is not impressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBack in England, Rippa is juggling the demands of a new season, an unexpected international call-up, a backpackers hostel full of 52 nationalities, an underground lawn bowls operation of questionable legality, and the arrival of Ned Buckley, a younger, fitter, more dedicated Australian who threatens to take everything Rippa has worked so hard to almost care about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eYoung Pilgrim\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the second book in P.J. Laverty's \u003cstrong\u003eRIPPA!\u003c\/strong\u003e series; a comedy about football, freedom, and a young man who would rather be anywhere else, doing almost anything else, and is somehow brilliant at the one thing he can't escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf you haven't met Joey Rippa yet, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fairplaypublishing.com.au\/products\/rippa?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=b18f9101b\u0026amp;_ss=r\" title=\"start with RIPPA!\"\u003estart with\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fairplaypublishing.com.au\/products\/rippa?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=b18f9101b\u0026amp;_ss=r\" title=\"start with RIPPA!\"\u003e RIPPA! \u003c\/a\u003e- \u003cem\u003ethe book that started it all.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fair Play Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45115058716854,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8688\/0438\/files\/FPP-Popcorn-Rippa2v3.jpg?v=1778479671","url":"https:\/\/www.fairplaypublishing.com.au\/products\/rippa-young-pilgrim","provider":"Fair Play Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}