{"product_id":"the-whole-bright-year-debra-oswald-9780143788256","title":"The Whole Bright Year","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the creator of 'Offspring' and author of Useful, a gripping, wry and tender novel about how holding on too tightly can cost us what we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1976 it's picking season on an Australian stone-fruit orchard run by Celia, a hard-working woman in her early forties. Years ago, when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery, Celia left the city and brought her newborn daughter Zoe to this farm for a secure life. Now sixteen, Zoe is a passionate, intelligent girl, chafing against her mother's protectiveness, yearning to find intensity and a bit of danger.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eBarging into this world as itinerant fruit-pickers come a desperate brother and sister from Sydney. The hard-bitten Sheena has kidnapped her wild, ebullient eighteen-year-old brother Kieran and dragged him out west, away from trouble in the city. Kieran and Zoe are drawn to each other the instant they meet, sparking excitement, worry, lust, trouble . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do we protect people we love? How do we bear watching them go out into the perilous world with no guarantee of safety or happiness? What bargains do people make with darkness in order to survive? From the creator of Offspring and author of Useful, The Whole Bright Year is a gripping, wry and tender novel about how holding on too tightly can cost us what we love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Debra Oswald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43176671019251,"sku":"9780143788256","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780143788256.jpg?v=1662087751","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-whole-bright-year-debra-oswald-9780143788256","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}