{"product_id":"billy-bird-by-emma-neale-9780143770053","title":"Billy Bird","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving, insightful, lyrical, and at times very funny, this novel is a supple, disarmingly frank exploration of parenthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiam and Iris have one son—Billy, a bright toddler puddling about like a penguin, leaving surrealist art installations all over the house—a tiny cow in a teapot in a hat on the doorstep, of course! A stuffed crocodile in a silk camisole perched beside a woollen chick in a beanie on the bread-bin, why not!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust as they are despairing about being able to conceive another child, Jason comes into their family. He arrives under fraught circumstances but might just make a perfect sibling for Billy. Jason is a \"lovely, poor, sad, unfortunate, ordinary, annoying, delightful nuisance of a ratbag of a hoot of a kid\" and the boys grow close over the ensuing years. But after a terrible accident, Billy turns into a bird. He utterly believes it—and as his behaviour becomes increasingly worrying, Liam and Iris must find a way to stop their family flying apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen extracts of \u003cem\u003eBilly Bird\u003c\/em\u003e won the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship, the judges said the project was \"inventive, joyful and beautifully written\". Ripe with playfulness, yet also unforgettably poignant, this novel will unstitch—and then mend—your heart several times over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46670230323436,"sku":"9780143770053","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4416723482239.jpg?v=1752764223","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/billy-bird-by-emma-neale-9780143770053","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}