{"product_id":"the-nowhere-boy","title":"The Nowhere Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Nowhere Boy is Anne's debut novel and the winner of the Allen \u0026amp; Unwin Fiction Prize 2025.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA child disappears in broad daylight-and no one sees a thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree-year-old Oliver, known as Apple Man, vanishes from a remote car park while his young father, Scott, carries fishing gear down to the beach. When he returns, the car is empty. His son has vanished without a trace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApple Man's mother, Fae, gets the call that shatters her life. Enraged with her ex, Scott and drowning in her own guilt, she is pulled back into Scott's orbit as police launch a desperate search across a wild coastline and dense pine forest. With every hour that passes, the case tightens around them-and the question no parent can bear to answer grows louder: what if he's never coming back?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFar from the search, a grieving woman convinces herself she's been given a second chance. Tessa has lost three babies and the future she believed was hers. When she encounters a small, abandoned boy, she sees not a crime, but a miracle she cannot surrender. As the hunt intensifies, her fragile fantasy of motherhood begins to unravel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the pressure continues to mount, everyone involved is forced to confront the same terrifying question: when love becomes possession, how far is too far?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne Cleary was born and raised in West Auckland and moved to Tauranga in 2016. Her short stories have won places in competitions and feature in magazines and anthologies in Aotearoa and Australia. She takes creative writing workshops and co-organises Tauranga Writers' monthly event, Writers on Writing. The Nowhere Boy is Anne's debut novel and the winner of the Allen \u0026amp; Unwin Fiction Prize 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ softback  320pp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eh234mm  x  w153mm  400g  C-Format PB \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLEN \u0026 UNWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46430459560086,"sku":"9781991142788","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/files\/jacket_ac4bbb55-2082-4b00-9024-510b3a54c08d.jpg?v=1782176162","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/the-nowhere-boy","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}