{"product_id":"jean-by-madeleine-dunnigan-9781917092722","title":"Jean","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a secret intimacy, one defined as much by violence as by friendship and desire. As the boys' connection deepens, so too does the risk that surrounds it. Jean—son of a single mother, Jewish, on a scholarship, forever an outsider—wonders whether the relationship might offer a way out of a life marked by alienation. But what if the only true path to freedom is to disappear altogether?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpellbinding and evocative, \u003ci\u003eJean\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heartrending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'There's something uncanny in Madeleine Dunnigan's austerely beautiful prose, in how what begins as a character study takes on a cosmic scale. \u003ci\u003eJean\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly luminous, profound novel; there are passages that give the shock of the genuinely great. An extraordinary debut.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eGarth Greenwell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003ci\u003eJean\u003c\/i\u003e utterly transported me . . . Exquisite.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eKatie Kitamura\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496184561900,"sku":"9781917092722","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781917092722-jean.jpg?v=1775796372","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/jean-by-madeleine-dunnigan-9781917092722","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}