{"product_id":"allthisbychance","title":"All this by Chance","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: #9e9fa4; font-family: Lato; font-size: 15px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eIf we don’t have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: #9e9fa4; font-family: Lato; font-size: 15px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"\u003eEsther’s grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of the Jewish family who sent their little girl to safety. When the couple emigrate, the peace they seek in New Zealand cannot overcome the past they have left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: #9e9fa4; font-family: Lato; font-size: 15px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"\u003eFollowing the lives of Eva, her daughter Lisa and her granddaughter Esther, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eAll This by Chance\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving multigenerational family saga about the legacy of the Holocaust and the burden of secrets never shared, by one of New Zealand’s finest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: #9e9fa4; font-family: Lato; font-size: 15px; background-color: #f7f7f7;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eVincent O’Sullivan\u003c\/span\u003e is the author of two previous novels — \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eLet the River Stand\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 1994 Montana NZ Book Award for fiction, and \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eBelievers to the Bright Coast\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Tasmania Pacific Region Prize — and many plays and collections of short stories and poems. His most recent collection of short fiction is \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eThe Families\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has been much awarded and he was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2000 Queen's birthday honours. Vincent O’Sullivan was the New Zealand poet laureate 2013–2015. He lives in Dunedin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":28838381158434,"sku":"9781776561797","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/products\/c28f48fda3cd8435192869487f9f82cc3fbdeda1.png?v=1559960038","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/allthisbychance","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}