{"product_id":"9780007564002_the-story-of-land-and-sea","title":"The Story of Land and Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lyrical and spellbinding story of love, loss, and war from a standout new voice in fiction. Katy Simpson Smith has already been acclaimed as an ‘heir apparent to to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorth Carolina, 1793. When nine-year-old Tab catches yellow fever, her father John steals her onto a boat, hoping the sea air will cure his only child. For comfort, he tells Tab stories about her mother Helen, who died in childbirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo decades earlier, Helen is given a slave girl for her tenth birthday. Moll’s arrival is meant to teach Helen discipline but soon the girls are close confidantes, until the arrival of John, a pirate turned soldier. And as the town is threatened in the dying embers of the Revolution, Helen must decide between a life of security on the family plantation and a sea adventure with the man she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katy Simpson Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895933948053,"sku":"9780007564002","price":18.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007564002_04e16fee-b202-4a10-8a89-db00bf52ac3c.jpg?v=1776888400","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007564002_the-story-of-land-and-sea","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}