{"product_id":"the-meadows-by-stephanie-oakes-9780593111505","title":"The Meadows","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A story of pain, injustice, love, resistance, and hope, this glorious book will lodge inside you and make you feel everything.\" -Helena Fox, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eHow It Feels to Float\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, a queer, YA \u003cem\u003eHandmaid's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/em\u003e about a dystopian society bent on relentless conformity, and the struggle of one girl to save herself and those she loves from a life of lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone hopes for a letter—to attend the Estuary, the Glades, the Meadows. These are the special places where only the best and brightest go to burn even brighter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Eleanor is accepted at the Meadows, it means escape from her hardscrabble life by the sea, in a country ravaged by climate disaster. But despite its luminous facilities, endless fields, and pretty things, the Meadows keeps dark secrets—its purpose is to reform students, to condition them against their attractions, to show them that one way of life is the only way to survive. And maybe Eleanor would believe them, except then she meets Rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive years later, Eleanor and her friends seem free of the Meadows, changed but not as they'd hoped. Eleanor is an adjudicator, her job to ensure her former classmates don't stray from the lives they've been trained to live. But Eleanor can't escape her past... or thoughts of the girl she once loved. As secrets unfurl, Eleanor must wage a dangerous battle for her own identity and the truth of what happened to the girl she lost, knowing, if she's not careful, Rose's fate could be her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA raw and timely masterwork of speculative fiction, \u003cem\u003eThe Meadows\u003c\/em\u003e will sink its roots into you. This is a novel for our times and for always—not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46555268514028,"sku":"9780593111505","price":41.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/0538d8c4b370065aec11c428415bc0af.jpg?v=1756689672","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-meadows-by-stephanie-oakes-9780593111505","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}