{"title":"Cathleen Schine","description":"\u003cp\u003eCathleen Schine's novels offer a captivating blend of wit, warmth, and insight into contemporary life. Her storytelling often explores the complexities of relationships and identity, weaving humour and emotional depth into narratives that resonate with readers looking for thoughtful general fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a distinctive voice that balances clever dialogue and richly drawn characters, Schine invites readers into intimate worlds where human connection and personal transformation take centre stage. Her works provide a satisfying experience for those who appreciate elegant, heartfelt fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kunstlers-in-paradise-by-cathleen-schine-9781250892492","title":"Künstlers in Paradise","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor years, Mamie Künstler, ninety-three years old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California, with her inscrutable housekeeper and her gigantic St. Bernard. Their tranquillity is upended when Mamie's grandson Julian arrives from New York City. Like many a twentysomething, he has come to seek his fortune in Hollywood. But it is 2020, the global pandemic sweeps in, and Julian's short visit suddenly has no end in sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMamie was only eleven when the Künstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way, stunned and overwhelmed, to sunny, surreal Los Angeles, where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians, writers, and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now, faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener, Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her years in Los Angeles: her escapades with eminent émigrés like Arnold Schoenberg, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann. Oh, and Greta Garbo. While the pandemic cuts Julian off from the life he knows, Mamie's tales open up a world of lives that came before him. They reveal to him just how much the past holds of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48242767724780,"sku":"9781250892492","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250892492-k-nstlers-in-paradise-1.jpg?v=1787976075"},{"product_id":"the-grammarians-by-cathleen-schine-9781250758231","title":"The Grammarians","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author compared to Norah Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Grammarians\u003c\/em\u003e are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret \"twin\" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, who gives up teaching kindergarten to write poetry, is drawn, instead, to the polymorphous, chameleon nature of the written and spoken word. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war, absurdly but passionately, over custody of their most prized family heirloom: \u003cem\u003eMerriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCathleen Schine has written a playful and joyful celebration of the interplay of language and life. A dazzling comedy of sisterly and linguistic manners, a revelation of the delights and stresses of intimacy, \u003cem\u003eThe Grammarians\u003c\/em\u003e is the work of one of our great comic novelists at her very best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244580876524,"sku":"9781250758231","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250758231-the-grammarians-1.jpg?v=1788003212"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/cathleen-schine.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}