{"product_id":"9780008444525_the-answer-to-everything","title":"The Answer to Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA heartbreakingly moving and hilariously funny novel about marriage, parenting, love, desire and betrayal.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e‘Captivating’ Ruth Jones, author of \u003cem\u003eUs Three\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e ‘Tremendous’ William Boyd author of \u003cem\u003eAny Human Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e‘Funny, wry, unsettling’ Nathan Filer, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Shock of the Fall\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily should be happy. She has a nice husband (even if they rarely speak to each other, let alone sleep in the same bed), two little boys she loves (even if a full night’s sleep is a distant memory) – and now, a brand-new house in which they can live out all of the bourgeois fantasies she knows she should be ashamed of. But still she aches for something more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Alathea and Elliott, their new neighbours, and also parents of two young boys. Alathea is intimidatingly confident and beautiful, but also disarmingly open and friendly. And Elliott … Elliott is intriguing. Dishevelled, talented, charming and a little lost, he seems as fascinated by Emily as she is by him, and soon their friendship has reached an intensity neither of them seem able to control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs riotously funny as it is painfully moving, this is a novel about disappointment and yearning; about parenting and growing up; and the search for love, meaning and connection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luke Kennard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285358854293,"sku":"9780008444525","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008444525.jpg?v=1776992227","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008444525_the-answer-to-everything","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}