{"product_id":"ash","title":"Ash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eA vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping – just – with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss’s search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children, Eli and Lucy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eBut something is shifting in Thea – something is burning. Or is it that she is becoming aware, for the first time, of the bright, hot core at her centre? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThen comes an urgent call.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eIngeniously layered, \u003cem\u003eAsh\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about reckoning with one’s rage and finding marvels in the midst of chaos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e'I have not felt this seen by a book, ever.\u003cem\u003e Ash\u003c\/em\u003e worked through me like a drug: I will be going back again and again. The craft is exquisite, the comedy deeply satiating. What Louise Wallace has achieved in \u003cem\u003eAsh \u003c\/em\u003eis a monumental call to all the women who have been called good girls and bitches with the same breath. \u003cem\u003eAsh \u003c\/em\u003esimmers and smokes with honesty. It makes sparks fly.' —Claire Mabey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Wallace’s ability to weave four narrative approaches in a way that produces something greater than the sum of its parts. . . . Wallace has achieved something particular and exciting in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eAsh.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e —Pip Adam, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'A rare and compelling honesty wriggles under the novel’s skin. Wallace tells Thea’s story with surgical economy. The cast are rendered alive by the lightest of brush strokes, the author choosing to notice what is most telling, selecting prose that scorches with wit. I cannot recall reading another text that so convincingly portrays the stream of micro-injustices that jab at the psyche of a working mother. Each incident presents an unseen injury, which combined spells a death by a thousand pinpricks.' —Anna Scaife, \u003cem\u003eKete Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise Wallace\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four collections of poems, the latest of which is \u003cem\u003eThis Is a Story About Your Mother\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). She is the founder and editor of \u003cem\u003eStarling\u003c\/em\u003e, an online journal publishing the work of young writers from Aotearoa, and the editor of \u003cem\u003eŌrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e2022\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a recipient of the Biggs Prize for Poetry and a Robert Burns fellow. She grew up in Gisborne and lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin. \u003cem\u003eAsh\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43584720896197,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Ash.jpg?v=1716679063","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/ash","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}