{"product_id":"into-the-wreck-susannah-dickey-9781526692054","title":"into the wreck","description":"\u003cp\u003e'One of the best novels I've read this year from an unusually gifted writer' IRISH TIMES\n\u003cbr\u003e'A wonderfully stylish writer with an unwavering eye' JOHN PATRICK McHUGH\n\u003cbr\u003e'Perfectly calibrated . . . These characters spike off the page' A. K. BLAKEMORE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do you mourn someone you never really knew?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  Three siblings  - Anna, Gemma and Matthew - will have to work that out quickly. Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father's funeral, and for the first time in a long while they are under one roof with their mother, imperious Yvonne, awaiting the arrival of their aunt Amy, an award-winning poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  Yet, as the funeral looms, their everyday concerns refuse to diminish: will newly sex-obsessed Gemma work out what she wants from life, beyond her mother's expectations? Can Anna maintain the fine balance between desire and nonchalance with her not-quite-exclusive boyfriend back in London? Will Amy's past explode the relationships of the present? And, crucially, will Yvonne pull off her grand, post-funeral family dinner, the solution to what she fears may be an unsolvable problem?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  Told from five perspectives, into the wreck worries at the knotty complexities of one family's bonds, written with Susannah Dickey's trademark empathy and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A rare talent, and certainly one to watch' SUNDAY TIMES\n\u003cbr\u003e'One of literature's major new talents' OBSERVER\n\u003cbr\u003e'One of the funniest and most insightful novelists writing today' NELL FRIZZELL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susannah Dickey","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50223284388083,"sku":"9781526692054","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781526692054.jpg?v=1786089004","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/into-the-wreck-susannah-dickey-9781526692054","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}