{"title":"Kate Camp","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"leather-chains-by-kate-camp-9781776923014","title":"Leather \u0026 Chains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is a dangerous thing to be a\nteenage girl.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI never kept a diary, except for\none year of my life. The year I turned fourteen. The year my parents divorced.\nThe year I had sex for the first time. The year I learned to use the\nmicrofiche.  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this unique follow-up to her memoir \u003ci\u003eYou Probably Think This Song Is About You\u003c\/i\u003e, Kate Camp turns her poet's eye to the rollercoaster entries of her 1986 diary, when she was 13 going on 14.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading the entirety of its handwritten pages for\nthe first time, she revels in the 80s touchstones, from Revlon Custom Eyes\nto \u003ci\u003eGhostbusters\u003c\/i\u003e on VHS. But amid the daily details like\nsmoking menthols in Suzy's Coffee Lounge and wearing Jazzercise tights in a\nphone box are moments of drama, even tragedy - being black-out drunk in a spa\npool, or watching her father move out of the family home. And at the centre of\nit all is Cameron, his black hair falling over his eyes, intoning in his fake\nScottish accent, 'Treat me rough, baby.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe diary\nentries - over 100 reproduced in full - are a time capsule of a very different\nera. The Kate Camp of today responds to their blithe accounts of sex, drugs and\nrisk-taking with horror and admiration. How real are our memories? Can we ever\nknow ourselves? And why is every entry signed off \u003ci\u003eLeather and Chains\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upstart Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264417677548,"sku":"9781776923014","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781776923014.webp?v=1769731663"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/kate-camp.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}