{"product_id":"9781785079597","title":"Armadillos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Amazon Rising Star Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'P.K. Lynch can tell a story deep as a wound… Read this one' -- Jeanette Winterson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A truly stunning debut' -- Matt Bendoris, \u003ci\u003eThe Scottish Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Just wonderful, haunting, real…' -- Fiona Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'…a brilliant first novel: pacy and un-put-downable.' -- Vicky Feaver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Featured on Radio 4's Woman's Hour**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAggie is fifteen, a 'sub' from a 'sub' family, one of Texas' downtrodden. Her father and brother enact that 'sub'-ness on her, week in, week out. She has only the vaguest notion that there is something wrong with the abuse she endures and instead dreams of the outside world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then one day, Aggie walks out, and like the armadillos that flourish in Texas' barren landscape, she is a survivor...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her escape, she gravitates to those who are just as maltreated as her. They offer Aggie the sense of family, albeit a thoroughly dysfunctional one, that she's been searching for. But when she gets embroiled in a crisis involving stolen money, Aggie soon realises there are some problems you can't run away from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Legend Times Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061779054832,"sku":"9781785079597","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785079597_p0.jpg?v=1763729264","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785079597","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}