{"product_id":"faerie-by-eisha-marjara-9781551526188","title":"Faerie","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAge range 14 to 17\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult, and leaving her childhood behind, has broken her heart. \u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel for young people, is the fierce yet gently unfolding story of a hyper-imaginative girl who is on a collision course to womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe likens herself to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the earthly world; but in the cold light of day, she is a psychiatric patient at a hospital, where she is being treated for anorexia—her sickness driven by the irrational need to undo nature and thwart the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing: we flashback to her childhood in the '80s, growing up in a small town as an overweight brown kid to Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar whom she idolises, and her mother, a housewife—\"the most female of all females\" who found comfort in cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e weaves these passages with Lila's downward spiral into life-threatening illness, her budding sexuality, and her complicated recovery in hospital that comes with a price. Written with candour and heartbreaking lyricism, \u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e is a plaintive love letter to the bold, flawed splendour that is childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46993874092268,"sku":"9781551526188","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10997283482740.jpg?v=1763103113","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/faerie-by-eisha-marjara-9781551526188","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}