{"product_id":"the-women-in-black-madeleine-st-john-9781925773330","title":"The Women in Black","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful hardback gift edition of Madeleine St John's bestselling, much-loved novel-now a major film by Bruce Beresford and successful stage musical by Tim Finn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush and the summer sales that follow. But it's Sydney in the 1950s, and there's still just enough time left on a hot and frantic day to dream and scheme...By the time the last marked-down frock has been sold, most of the staff of the Ladies' Cocktail section at F. G. Goode's have been launched into slightly different careers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the lightest touch and the most tender of comic instincts, Madeleine St John conjures a vanished summer of innocence. The Women in Black is a great novel, a lost Australian classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Madeleine St John","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45993104474355,"sku":"9781925773330","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781925773330.jpg?v=1721160477","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-women-in-black-madeleine-st-john-9781925773330","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}