{"product_id":"stakes-a-memoir","title":"Stakes: A memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author's bestselling memoir, Grand. You have to invite him in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou have to want the vampire's badness in the house with you. Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker's Dracula. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to Dracula, reckoning with her own history and a changing world- generation-spanning shame and trauma given voice by #MeToo and the horrors emerging from Irish soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than a century after readers were first mesmerised by Dracula, Stakes transposes its electric themes of transgression, intoxication and sexual danger onto Noelle's own life, asking- what's the difference between an inheritance and a curse?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA funny, visceral follow-up to the acclaimed Grand, Stakes celebrates the power of a gothic horror to help you face the parts of life that scare you most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoelle McCarthy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMemoirs, Society and Social Sciences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 320 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 233mm W: 154mm Spine: 21mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 398 grams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books (NZ)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46414668923030,"sku":"9781776951031","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/files\/jacket-2026-06-05T105222-335.jpg?v=1780613575","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/stakes-a-memoir","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}