{"product_id":"black-silk-sympathy","title":"Black Silk \u0026 Sympathy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSydney, 1865. Seventeen-year-old Tatiana Caldwell travels from London to make a new life. Her path leads her to Crowe Funeral Services, where she apprentices under the tutelage of Titus Crowe, the enigmatic owner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTatty finds herself drawn to the fascinating conventions of the funeral trade - plumed horses and processions, mutes and mortuary trains, flowers and finery - as well as the more visceral new practice of embalming. Soon she marries, and after the sudden death of her husband, Titus, she becomes Sydney's first female undertaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer hard-won stability is shattered when Elias Nuttall, a ruthless rival in the funeral trade, accuses Tatty of murdering her husband. Facing public scorn and legal peril, Tatty gathers an unlikely band of allies in a battle to clear her name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Silk and Sympathy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a riveting and realistic journey through the front parlours and dark alleys of 1860s Sydney, from the Botanic Gardens in the morning to the cemetery at midnight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41804188090402,"sku":"9781460763667","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/files\/x1000_5.jpg?v=1787013210","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/black-silk-sympathy","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}