{"product_id":"enchantment-riikka-pulkkinen-9781915590770","title":"Enchantment","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilippa Laakso was many things to many people. Caring and selfish. Kind to some, cruel to others. And now, she was dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen seventeen-year-old Philippa's body is found in the yard outside her home, the police launch an investigation. Everyone close to Philippa is questioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe elderly neighbour who discovered her body, who kept confusing Philippa with his late wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe best friend, who hoards a secret stash of objects she'd stolen from Philippa over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ex-boyfriend, still reeling from their sudden break-up months before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe woman who features, enraged, in some of the strange videos Philippa filmed on her beloved PEN Olympus camera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe older men she'd been meeting via a dating app.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach tells a different story: she was a confidant, a fantasy, a temptation, a problem, a mystery, a mirror. But did any of them truly know her?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnchantment is a spellbinding literary mystery that explores the uneasy terrain of girlhood, where one is always being watched, shaped, and judged by others. In it, Riikka Pulkkinen weaves a complex story of power, identity, and the fragile boundary between truth and fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An intricate tapestry of a novel by a masterful writer. Enchantment's real triumph is its investigation into what we mean to one another as imperfect people. I wanted to savour every sentence of this structurally impressive novel.'\n\u003cbr\u003e-Catherine Airey, author of Confessions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Riikka Pulkkinen is a Finnish Joyce Carol Oates.'\n\u003cbr\u003e-Livres Hebdo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Limit:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A quiet. mature novel ... Pulkkinen explores the limits of people's control over their own actions and circumstances'\n\u003cbr\u003e-Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riikka Pulkkinen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50223281111283,"sku":"9781915590770","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781915590770.jpg?v=1786088978","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/enchantment-riikka-pulkkinen-9781915590770","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}