{"title":"Elizabeth Lowry","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to our collection featuring the acclaimed author Elizabeth Lowry. Known for her rich storytelling and attention to historical detail, Lowry has captivated readers with her compelling narratives and complex characters. Our selection includes her notable work, \u003cem\u003eThe Chosen\u003c\/em\u003e, which beautifully showcases her talent in creating intricate and thought-provoking fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Lowry has carved a niche in the world of general fiction with her ability to weave suspenseful plots that are both intellectually engaging and emotionally resonant. Her novels often explore themes of identity, morality, and the human condition, providing readers with both entertainment and introspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you're a long-time fan or new to her work, Elizabeth Lowry's books offer a captivating journey through intricately crafted tales that remain with you long after the last page is turned. Dive into our collection and discover the literary brilliance of Elizabeth Lowry's storytelling today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-chosen-by-elizabeth-lowry-9781529410693","title":"The Chosen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Does art enhance life, or negate it? The painful question runs through Lowry's portrait of Thomas Hardy, and produces a sombre, delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight’ Hilary Mantel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms, she has gone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe day before, he and Emma had exchanged bitter words - leading Hardy to wonder whether all husbands and wives end up as enemies to each other. His family and Florence Dugdale, the much younger woman with whom he has been in a relationship, assume that he will be happy and relieved to be set free. But he is left shattered by the loss.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardy's bewilderment only increases when, sorting through Emma's effects, he comes across a set of diaries that she had secretly kept about their life together, ominously titled 'What I Think of My Husband'. He discovers what Emma had truly felt - that he had been cold, remote and incapable of ordinary human affection, and had kept her childless, a virtual prisoner for forty years. Why did they ever marry?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe is consumed by something worse than grief: a chaos in which all his certainties have been obliterated. He has to re-evaluate himself, and reimagine his unhappy wife as she was when they first met.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardy's pained reflections on the choices he has made, and must now make, form a unique combination of love story and ghost story, by turns tender, surprising, comic and true. \u003cem\u003eThe Chosen\u003c\/em\u003e - the extraordinary new novel by Elizabeth Lowry - hauntingly searches the unknowable spaces between man and wife; memory and regret; life and art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46715810119916,"sku":"9781529410693","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14528653482732.jpg?v=1754413240"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/elizabeth-lowry.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}