{"product_id":"cherry-beach-by-laura-mcphee-browne-9781922268501","title":"Cherry Beach","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe arrived on a Tuesday, I can remember that. I can remember Hetty’s hand in mine as we moved slowly down the steps of the escalator, as if standing completely still would have been harder than moving.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHetty and Ness, best friends since childhood, have left suburban Melbourne for the first time to live abroad. Hetty is charming and captivating, the life of the party. Ness is a wallflower, hopelessly in love with her. In the student quarter of Toronto, the pair take a room in a share house full of self-assured creatives. Hetty disappears into barkeeping work and a whirlwind nightlife, while Ness drifts aimlessly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when Ness finds Faith one day in the art gallery, an intense affair develops. There are new friends, too, and a job: at last, her life starts to make some sense. And Hetty’s starts spectacularly to fall apart, in a mess of bad drugs and bad men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs winter freezes the lakeside city, the dark undercurrents of Hetty’s character—abusive relationships, a dangerous obsession with bodies of water—become ever stronger. Ness may lose the person she loves more than anyone else in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and intimate, \u003ci\u003eCherry Beach\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory story of friendship and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529880129772,"sku":"9781922268501","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11096133482872.jpg?v=1749236622","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/cherry-beach-by-laura-mcphee-browne-9781922268501","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}