{"product_id":"bright-objects","title":"Bright Objects","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJanuary 1997: In the small town of Jericho, New South Wales, Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice. Since the night of the hit-and-run, her world has been shrouded in hazy darkness-until she meets Theo St John, the discoverer of a rare comet soon to be visible above Jericho.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the comet begins to brighten, visitors flock like pilgrims into town. Supermarkets run out of canned goods; campgrounds fill to capacity. And more and more people are drawn into the orbit of Joseph Evans, an enigmatic local who believes the comet's arrival is nothing short of a divine message. But Sylvia will soon realise that she isn't the only one haunted by the past. While everyone else is looking to the night sky for answers, her quest to uncover her husband's killer will unearth long-held secrets with far-reaching consequences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA novel about the search for meaning in a bewildering world, the loyalty of love and the dangerous lengths people go to in pursuit of the truth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBright Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a luminous, masterfully crafted literary thriller.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A literary mystery of consummate elegance and gravity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBright Objects\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003etraces a graceful orbit around the phenomena of human grief and love.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Au, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCold Enough for Snow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe X-Files\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e meets Nick Cave's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosteen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--science, faith, and human folly collide in this celestial melodrama.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Elizabeth Woollett, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Newcomer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeautiful Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Gripping, thrilling. An electric story of small towns, big secrets and the last great comet of the millennium.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eFelicity McLean, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Van Apfel Girls Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A novel written with immense grace, beauty, and depth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBright Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e plumbs the farthest reaches of one widow's grief, ultimately revealing the brilliance of our humanity in the face of immense loss--the will to fight for what's right, the will to hope, and most importantly, the will to love again. A surprising, thrilling, and seductively dangerous comet of a book.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eChelsea Bieker, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGodshot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadwoman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBright Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of a woman consumed by an unquellable obsession, reduced by solitude and incompleteness, caught in an unconscious embattled conspiracy of her own making. Ruby Todd writes of the strain of fearful events and discoveries, and the fatal inevitability of a sense of guilt when someone close to one is killed, all the while revealing to us the hidden realities that lie in wait for us.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusanna Moore, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiction: general and literary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuby Todd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e432 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 234mm W: 153mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 452 grams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLEN \u0026 UNWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43326326669462,"sku":"9781761470479","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/files\/jacket---2024-04-04T160512-267.jpg?v=1712200012","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/bright-objects","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}