{"product_id":"the-competition-by-katherine-collette-9781922268068","title":"The Competition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrances quite honestly isn’t that excited about the SpeechMakers annual national conference and public-speaking competition. What she’s excited about (relatively speaking) is that this year there’s a major prize. Frances has a few small problems and forty thousand dollars would go a long way to sorting them out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKeith is Frances’s probably-ex-mentor, it’s hard to tell since she’s not talking to him, and he disapproves of the prize money. He thinks SpeechMakers should be about self-improvement, not self-enrichment. He wants to win the competition, though. He thinks it might help the situation with his wife Linda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeil doesn’t care about the competition at all but Judy, his mother and coach, does, so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Rebecca…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eActually, what the hell is Rebecca doing here? Rebecca belongs to Frances’s past, not her present. And certainly not her (hopefully) less-disastrous future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKatherine Collette, author of the hilarious \u003ci\u003eThe Helpline\u003c\/i\u003e, returns with another sharply observed comedy of manners and a cast of loveable underachievers, headed for self-improvement despite themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671837331692,"sku":"9781922268068","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11091803482872.jpg?v=1752826286","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-competition-by-katherine-collette-9781922268068","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}