{"product_id":"a-better-place-by-stephen-daisley-9781922458681","title":"A Better Place","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeople in the district would often say Roy Mitchell was not quite the same after he came back from the war. There was a twin brother, Tony, killed on Crete in 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe hut he built when he returned was on a bit of flat ground above the Mangawhero Creek. He called it his whare. Corrugated-iron chimney on the south wall. Black maire firewood cut and stacked on the veranda. The kennels were north-facing with dry folded sacks for the dogs to sleep on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1942, Roy had driven seventy-five miles through the North African desert to see a litter of ten pups. Just to see them. Someone from the 5th Field Artillery had told him about them. Drove back to the New Zealand lines after that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Stephen Daisley, winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australia) for \u003cem\u003eTraitor\u003c\/em\u003e and New Zealand's Ockham Prize for \u003cem\u003eComing Rain\u003c\/em\u003e, a new novel of brothers at war. Beautifully written, brutal, tender and visceral, \u003cem\u003eA Better Place\u003c\/em\u003e is about art and violence, and love in its many forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075832103148,"sku":"9781922458681","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12997933482872.jpg?v=1765187089","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/a-better-place-by-stephen-daisley-9781922458681","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}