{"product_id":"a-country-of-eternal-light","title":"A Country of Eternal Light","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781460763117\u003cbr\u003eFormat: B-format paperback\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2023\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn astonishingly inventive, playful, witty, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR and THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE in 2023.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Bryce, deceased mother of twins, has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. These days she spends time with her daughters - Eva in Madrid, and Rachel and her family in Melbourne - and her estranged husband, Henry, in Aberdeen. Mostly she enjoys the experience of revisiting the past, but she's tiring of the seemingly random events to which she repeatedly bears witness. There must be something more to life, she thinks. And death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning more than seventy-five years, from 1945 to 2021, \u003cem\u003eA Country of Eternal Light \u003c\/em\u003efollows Margaret as she flits from wartime Germany to Thatcher's Britain to modern-day Scotland, Australia and Spain, ruminating on everything from the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster and Australia's Black Summer bushfires to Mary Queen of Scots' beheading, the death of Princess Diana and in-vitro fertilisation. But why is facing up to what's happened in one's past as hard as, if not harder than, blocking it out completely? A poignant, utterly original and bitingly funny novel about complicated grief and how we remain wanted by our loved ones, dead or alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eA COUNTRY OF ETERNAL LIGHT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Inventive and moving ... superb' \u003cem\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A startlingly ambitious novel ... astonishingly accomplished, bittersweet, poignant and funny. Paul Dalgarno has gifted the world something quite rare. A no\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS PUB","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41507593027717,"sku":"PR406642","price":38.7,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNYGMD7M0NY1.jpg?v=1769767319","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/a-country-of-eternal-light","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}