{"product_id":"losing-it-by-moira-burke-9781925498363","title":"Losing It","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat. And Josie is surviving, or not—self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut her internal monologue—intense, immediate, and raw—reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1998, \u003cem\u003eLosing It\u003c\/em\u003e is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46670912487660,"sku":"9781925498363","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15308963482873.jpg?v=1752789282","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/losing-it-by-moira-burke-9781925498363","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}