{"product_id":"in-a-fishone-church","title":"In a Fishbone Church","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn A Fishbone Church\u003c\/em\u003e is the expansive, deeply moving and multi-award-winning novel that launched Catherine Chidgey’s storytelling to the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eWhen Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard – but Clifford’s words have too much life in them to be ignored, and start to permeate his family’s world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eClifford taught Gene about how to find rocks and fossils, and about how to kill birds and fish. Gene passes on a similar inheritance to his daughters, Bridget and Christina – they have their own ways of digging and discovering the past, keeping an account of life, watching out for the varieties of death that lie hidden. Etta their mother tells a very different story of her 1940s childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eFirst published in 1998, \u003cem\u003eIn a Fishbone Church\u003c\/em\u003e spans continents and decades. From the Berlin rave scene to the Canterbury duck season, from the rural 1950s to the cosmopolitan 1990s, these five vivid lives cohere in a deeply affecting and exhilarating novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘Catherine Chidgey is a wonderful new talent, and \u003cem\u003eIn a Fishbone Church\u003c\/em\u003e marks the beginning of what promises to be a glorious literary career.’ —Nick Hornby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘A beautifully evocative and warm account of family life and history, \u003cem\u003eIn a Fishbone Church\u003c\/em\u003e enchanted me from the first to last page.’ —\u003cem\u003eThe Bookseller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘It is funny. It is supremely touching. It knows magic.’ —\u003cem\u003eThe Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44134722502853,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/9781776922277.jpg?v=1728880133","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/in-a-fishone-church","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}