{"product_id":"stakes-by-noelle-mccarthy-9781776951031","title":"Stakes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/blogs\/latest-news-at-book-hero\/qa-with-noelle-mccarthy\"\u003einterview with author Noelle McCarthy\u003c\/a\u003e!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author’s bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003eGrand.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire’s badness in the house with you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e, reckoning with her own history and a changing world: generation-spanning shame and trauma given voice by #Metoo and the horrors emerging from Irish soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than a century after readers were first mesmerised by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStakes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003etransposes its electric themes of transgression, intoxication and sexual danger onto Noelle’s own life, asking; what's the difference between an inheritance and a curse?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA funny, visceral follow-up to the acclaimed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrand\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStakes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates the power of a gothic horror to help you face the parts of life that scare you most.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47318857515244,"sku":"9781776951031","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781776951031.jpg?v=1771450817","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/stakes-by-noelle-mccarthy-9781776951031","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}