{"product_id":"what-a-shame-abigail-bergstrom-9781529367010","title":"What a Shame","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Absorbing and clever, I fell in love with Mathilda' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCathy Rentzenbrink\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A glorious new talent has arrived'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmma Gannon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Full of heart, wit and feeling'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaroline O'Donoghue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Fizzes with energy, rage and love'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJessica Moor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A sterling debut . . . Mathilda's chilling but ultimately redemptive story will stay with me'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLaura Jane Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been 'laden with something dark' was disconcertingly unanimous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI wondered if this was something you also saw in me, if that was why you left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  There is something wrong with Mathilda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe's still reeling from the blow of a gut-punch break up and grieving the death of a loved one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  But that's not it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  She's cried all her tears, mastered her crow pose and thrown out every last reminder of him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  But that's not helping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConcerned that she isn't moving on, Mathilda's friends push her towards a series of increasingly unorthodox remedies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  Until the seams of herself begin to come undone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  Tender, unflinching and blisteringly funny, What a Shame glitters with rage and heartbreak, and offers up the joy of self-acceptance through an extraordinary rite of passage to overcome the prickly heat of female shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Tender and searingly honest - I couldn't stop reading'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAngela Scanlon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A painfully exquisite book'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCamilla Pang\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abigail Bergstrom","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176926773491,"sku":"9781529367010","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781529367010.jpg?v=1662090933","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/what-a-shame-abigail-bergstrom-9781529367010","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}