{"product_id":"9780007440214_the-seal-wife","title":"The Seal Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling THE BINDING CHAIR comes an extraordinary tale of desire set in the snowfields of 1917 Alaska.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBigelow is a scientist, meticulous and obsessive, a man of tightly coiled passion. Stationed in the tiny frontier town of Anchorage, Alaska in 1915, he builds a weather observatory, a kite big enough to penetrate the heavens, carrying instruments to track the great storms that scour the land. He is distracted from his labours when he meets a native Aleut woman, a stitcher of furs, whose muteness calls up in him an almost unbearable longing. Her ferocious self-containment begins to seem to him more and more animal – and yet the more her silence pushes him away he burns to possess her. And when she disappears, he begins to believe he'll die if he never sees her again…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn incendiary tale set against the sear and haunting landscape of the Great North, THE SEAL WIFE merges the enchantment of myth with a taut and chilling story of erotic compulsion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Harrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284946010261,"sku":"9780007440214","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007440214.jpg?v=1776992214","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007440214_the-seal-wife","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}