{"product_id":"australian-gospel-by-lech-blaine-9781760643973","title":"Australian Gospel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWild applause. Brave, funny and true.\u003c\/em\u003e - David Marr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the new benchmark for the quintessential Australian epic. I lost count of how many times I laughed and cried.\u003c\/em\u003e - Grace Tame\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael and Mary Shelley are Christian fanatics who loathe their fellow Australians - especially their 'reckless indulgence of alcohol and obsession with idiotic ball sports'. Lenore and Tom Blaine are working-class Queensland publicans raising a large family in a raucous, loving, sports-obsessed home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's just one problem. Lenore and Tom are foster parents to three of Michael and Mary's children, who were removed from the Shelleys as infants. And the Shelleys are prepared to do anything to get them back. Anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAustralian Gospel\u003c\/em\u003e is the true story of Lech Blaine's family, a stranger-than-fiction tale that is heartbreaking, hilarious and altogether astonishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA rollicking, insightful and moving account of the everyday heavens and hells we make for ourselves, and each other.\u003c\/em\u003e - Sarah Krasnostein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat makes a real family? Whose rights should triumph in battles over a child? Which inheritances can we escape, and which will haunt us forever? All this is explored in an irreverently joyful family saga you'll never forget.\u003c\/em\u003e - Charlotte Wood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46344071741676,"sku":"9781760643973","price":41.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23826673482814.jpg?v=1744011927","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/australian-gospel-by-lech-blaine-9781760643973","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}