{"product_id":"9781857025682","title":"Kitty and Virgil","description":"\u003cp\u003eA love story set in Romania and England by the author of the Booker shortlisted bestseller, ‘Gabriel’s Lament’. Paul Bailey’s most ambitious novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKitty Crozier wakes up in a hospital ward and finds a stranger looking down at her. Thus begins the most important, most demanding, most exhilarating relationship of Kitty’s life. Her lover’s name is Virgil Florescu, a poet who has escaped from Ceausescu’s Romania. As their liaison deepens, more is revealed of their previous lives and of their different families. Both Kitty and Virgil have unusual fathers: Kitty’s is a phenomenally accomplished philanderer, while Virgil’s has changed his political allegiances from left to right and back again in order to ensure his survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is rich in characters and despite its tragic theme – which is not revealed until late in the narrative – is often fiendishly funny. For all its concern with public issues of morality, it is very much about family life – or rather, that of two distinct families with interesting histories and secrets, not all of them unhappy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896539664533,"sku":"9781857025682","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781857025682.png?v=1777422824","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781857025682","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}