{"product_id":"country-schoolmaster-a-mystery-in-88-letters","title":"The Country Schoolmaster","description":"\u003ci\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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rummaging 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\u003e Ultimately, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Country Schoolmaster\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Country Schoolmaster: A Mystery in 88 Letters","offer_id":46628379525317,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/country-schoolmaster-a-mystery-in-88-letters","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}