{"product_id":"the-country-schoolmaster-a-mystery-in-88-letters","title":"THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER - A MYSTERY IN 88 LETTERS","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.csD23A9CB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:normal;Arial;} .cs95B300B{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;} .cs2B8514B{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:italic;Arial;} .csB3317AB{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:normal;Arial;} .cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csB3317AB\"\u003eA mesmerising reconstruction of a hundred-year-old true story Kate Grenville discovered in the archives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs2B8514B\"\u003e'I stood there holding the hundred-year-old letter with a feeling that was familiar from other archives, other bulging files of dog-eared paper. It was a blood-running-fast, itchy-palm, eyes-wide-open feeling of stumbling on something. A story ...'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRummaging around in the archives one afternoon, Kate Grenville comes across an innocuous-looking file full of letters about a schoolteacher in country New South Wales. Intrigued, she keeps reading - and discovers a tale far more curious and complex than first appears. Was Joseph Connor savagely beating the students in his care? Or was he the victim of a small-town vendetta? And what went so terribly wrong between him and his daughter?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, Grenville simply has to know: was Connor a victim or a villain? Part colonial cold case, part locked-room mystery, part the dance of a writer's imagination among facts and semi-facts, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs2B8514B\"\u003eThe Country Schoolmaster\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003e is a book like no other. In it, the novelist comes to understand the seductive pleasure of story-making, but also its dangerous limitations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books N Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50570528588016,"sku":"9781760646257","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1855\/5830\/files\/9781760646257_1.jpg?v=1791168886","url":"https:\/\/booksngifts.com.au\/products\/the-country-schoolmaster-a-mystery-in-88-letters","provider":"Books N Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}