{"product_id":"9780007446247_the-healer","title":"The Healer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tale of mystery and healing from the Canadian forests, where Nature can be nasty and men can easily go mad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe’re in the Canadian uplands, a landscape of lakes and forests, cabins and canoes, hunters and hunted. The Healer is a young teenage girl with a gift she finds hard to bear: she seems able to heal the sick, to drive out foul spirits. Her father is a brutal man: strong, tempestuous and violent, he finds it hard to accommodate his daughter’s abilities in the way she would wish. A journalist, our principal narrator, comes between them, sent by his magazine to secure a story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntranced by the girl and the emptiness of the land, he buys from a persuasive realtor the derelict lakeside cabin which becomes the centre of the action, as all three main characters swirl into a vortex of vengeance and violence – violence reflected in a landscape of storms and floods of terrifying power. Hollingshead proves himself a writer who knows the lethal force latent in the natural world. And that man is an animal too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Greg Hollingshead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284731707541,"sku":"9780007446247","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007446247.png?v=1776992241","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007446247_the-healer","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}