{"product_id":"9781921834370","title":"Jack and Jill","description":"Jill and her dad are happy enough after her mother dies. Theirs is a simple life in the outback, far from the big city where a coathanger is being built across a sparkling harbour.\u003cp\u003eUntil Jack arrives at their door one evening, and steps inside to find the skinny, wild-looking child sitting with her grim-faced father. It’s the start of all Jill's problems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Absence makes the heart grow fonder,' threatens Jack, as he marches off to war. And he's right, in a way - but this is no ordinary romance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanning the period from the Depression to the freewheeling '60s, Helen Hodgman's second novel, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, is a masterpiece, a twisted fairytale told with her characteristic dark wit. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'What a boon to Australian writing Helen Hodgman is - the playful, brooding ice sculptor of human weirdness.' Craig Sherborne\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137466515696,"sku":"9781921834370","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921834370_p0.jpg?v=1763632724","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921834370","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}