{"product_id":"time-together-by-luke-horton-9781761380921","title":"Time Together","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce they were just them. Now they're forty-something and there's kids. Whose time is this?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhil is trying to feel closer to his recently passed mother by spending time alone at his parent's house on the coast. But he is lonely, and stupidly he's invited a bunch of old friends to visit. It's bound to be a mistake. All those children! But it's too late now, and tomorrow Bella and Tim will arrive with their two kids, one on the brink of puberty, and the next day Jo and Lucas will come too, with their little one. Then there's Annie, who will be by herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of a beach holiday told by four different people, \u003cem\u003eTime Together\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about different kinds of love, different kinds of loneliness, and the way spending time together can bring out the best and worst in each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Horton writes authentically of this intimate interplay of warring insecurities, nostalgias, and unrealised aspirations ... Cutting through this is Horton's restrained, crisp writing, so unadorned with superfluity that his simple descriptions of nature and light resonate ... a compelling rendering of personal and interpersonal tensions and the subterranean currents that shape them. Without sentimentality, Horton tenderly evokes the at times quiet, opaque nature of grief.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- Jack Callil, The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTime Together\u003c\/em\u003e is a slow burn of a novel. Beautifully written and impossible to put down. I loved it.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- Sophie Cunningham, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Devastating Fever\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An artful, deliciously acerbic portrait of family, friendship, and the indignities of middle age. Horton is a master of domestic unease.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- Laura Elizabeth Woollett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46672515432684,"sku":"9781761380921","price":41.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3110363482815.jpg?v=1752852229","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/time-together-by-luke-horton-9781761380921","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}