{"product_id":"little-monsters-fiction","title":"Little Monsters (Fiction)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families and long-buried secrets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKen and Abby Gardner were raised in a remote home on Cape Cod. As adults, their relationship is strained, but their lives are still deeply intertwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family, but when his wife walks in on him in an internet chatroom, she demands they go to therapy. Abby is a talented artist who depends on her brother's goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them as a single parent. As his seventieth birthday approaches and he begins to stare down his mortality, he comes off his bipolar disorder medication in order to make one last scienti?c breakthrough; he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harbouring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family - Steph, who doesn't make her connection known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet over one fraught summer, \u003ci\u003eLittle Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e is an absorbing, sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out - its Edenic lushness and its snakes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41091636428834,"sku":"9781529153804","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/products\/Copy-of-Book-Template-2143.jpg?v=1691804220","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/little-monsters-fiction","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}