{"product_id":"wise-children-by-emma-rice-9781786826916","title":"Wise Children","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation, Melchior Hazard, turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he’s still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWise Children\u003c\/em\u003e is adapted for the stage from Angela Carter's last novel about a theatrical family living in South London. It centres around twin chorus girls, Nora and Dora Chance, whose lives are brimming with mystery, illegitimacy, and scandal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDora narrates the story as her older self, looking back on a tumultuous life, throughout which she and her sister have loved to sing and dance. A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, \u003cem\u003eWise Children\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness, and hope. Expect show girls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief, and mistaken identity – and butterflies by the thousand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471970877676,"sku":"9781786826916","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ae6cdb8abcc582320f6665d2f38b6203.jpg?v=1775692470","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/wise-children-by-emma-rice-9781786826916","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}