{"product_id":"9780007309214_this-is-the-life","title":"This Is the Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut novel from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard \u0026amp; Judy pick, ‘Netherland’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Jones is slipping steadily through life. He has a steady job as a junior partner at a solicitor's firm, a steady girlfriend and a steady mortgage. Nothing much is happening in Jones's life but he really doesn't mind – this is exactly the way he likes it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Donovan, meanwhile, is a star – a world-class international lawyer and advocate – he's everything Jones wanted to be and isn't. Jones was once Donovan's pupil and, for a while, it looked like he too would make his name – but he left that high-powered world behind a long time ago, or so he thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day Jones reads in the paper that Donovan has collapsed in court – then, out of the blue, Donovan contacts him; he has a job he needs Jones to work on…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph O'Neill's debut is wonderfully clever and comic novel – about ambitions and aspirations and the realities that they inevitably collide with.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph O'Neill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895405596821,"sku":"9780007309214","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007309214_fb200085-6ce8-4850-ab58-b7e73ea8faf5.jpg?v=1776888550","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007309214_this-is-the-life","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}