{"product_id":"sororicidal-by-edwina-preston-9781761775550","title":"Sororicidal","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSororicidal\u003c\/em\u003e didn't so much move me as arrest me. It stopped me in my tracks. A far more powerful thing. - Angela O'Keeffe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA punk-gothic historical novel in which sisterhood is the defining experience of two women's lives - and also the potential death of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWell-born Mary and Margot are raised on a vineyard estate above Adelaide in the early years of the last century. Mary, brilliant and beautiful, dazzles all as her quiet, serious sister trails in her shadow. But Mary's high-handed malice finds a match in Margot's growing resentment at mistreatment; her revenge will be served at absolute zero.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet against a backdrop of privilege and propriety - and unfolding in an era of global conflict and radical new ideas about art and female agency - \u003cem\u003eSororicidal\u003c\/em\u003e is an account of Edwardian-era sisterly love that mutates into a very modern tale of rivalry and betrayal. The polite cruelty of their childhood games becomes adult battles where the endgame is to split the nuclear family, releasing utter devastation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once intimate and expansive, locally grounded and global in reach, \u003cem\u003eSororicidal\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of womanhood across a convulsive century - and the ordinary lives of two sisters who remain inextricably linked across a lifetime: as mirrors, rivals, and executioners of one another's dreams. It is a novel about the necessary and unendurable entanglements of family; the thin, volatile line between care and spite; and how love is a flame that both feeds and consumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSororicidal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuch a brilliant, funny, rich novel; \u003cem\u003eSororicidal\u003c\/em\u003e held me in its grip from the first page to the last. - Sofie Laguna\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA story of repression and love, cruelty and beauty, written with a playful, elegant intelligence. - Holly Throsby\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47269587550444,"sku":"9781761775550","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3fbcd8e423fe3fafd0bbeef2ba719ed4.jpg?v=1769985952","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sororicidal-by-edwina-preston-9781761775550","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}