{"product_id":"a-better-place-stephen-daisley-9781922458681","title":"A Better Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeople in the district would often say Roy Mitchell was not quite the same after he come back from the war. There was a twin brother, Tony. Killed on Crete in 1941. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe hut he built when he returned was on a bit of flat ground above the Mangawhero Creek. He called it his whare. Corrugated-iron chimney on the south wall. Black maire firewood cut and stacked on the veranda. The kennels were north-facing with dry folded sacks for the dogs to sleep on. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1942, Roy had driven seventy-five miles through the North African desert to see a litter of ten pups. Just to see them. Someone from the 5th Field Artillery had told him about them. Drove back to the New Zealand lines after that. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Stephen Daisley, winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australia) for Traitor and New Zealand's Ockham Prize for Coming Rain, a new novel of brothers at war. Beautifully written, brutal, tender and visceral, A Better Place is about art and violence, and love in its many forms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daisley","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43826589434099,"sku":"9781922458681","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781922458681.jpg?v=1688508045","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/a-better-place-stephen-daisley-9781922458681","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}