{"product_id":"9781460700037","title":"Mermaid Singing \u0026 Peel Me a Lotus","description":"\u003cspan style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; DISPLAY: inline !important; FONT: 11px\/15px verdana; WHITE-SPACE: normal; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eTwo classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's in one volume.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Charmian Clift, Greece was the Promised Land. In 1954 she and her husband, George Johnston, abandoned their sophisticated London existence and set off with two new typewriters and two small children to start a new life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMermaid Singing\u003c\/em\u003e - written during the first miraculous year of discovery - she records the family's adaptation to the primitive sponge-diving island of Kalymnos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeel Me a Lotus\u003c\/em\u003e continues the exploration as Clift and Johnson buy a house on the island of Hydra, in the middle of the summer tourist trail. Clift's writing about Greece was undervalued at the time of first publication, because she wrote from a women's point of view and recorded the intimate details of daily life. It is exactly this quality which enables this classic to appeal to a new generation of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charmian Clift","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46920305967253,"sku":"9781460700037","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781460700037_c28ae717-33e8-4ee6-9f86-95c4a8e67e73.jpg?v=1776889780","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781460700037","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}