{"product_id":"cousins-by-patricia-grace-9780143774907","title":"Cousins","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Patricia Grace's most popular novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMakareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from the forties to the present, from the country to the protests of the cities, \u003cem\u003eCousins\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of these three cousins. Thrown together as children, they have subsequently grown apart, yet they share a connection that can never be broken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning novel about tradition and change, about whanau and its struggle to survive, about the place of women in a shifting world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e. . . it is robust and powerful. I simply could not put it down. Lyrical and vibrant, smoothly paced and quietly rhythmic, Grace's language moves easily from one person to the next, as the stories unfold.\u003c\/em\u003e - Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, NZ Listener\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCousins is an engrossing story that runs on in the head long after it has finished.\u003c\/em\u003e - Dominion Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePatricia Grace writes with an enviable clarity and power.\u003c\/em\u003e - Evening Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCousins\u003c\/em\u003e has been adapted for the screen, the film produced by Miss Conception Films and Whenua Films, directed by Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith, screenplay by Briar Grace-Smith and Patricia Grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46546369708268,"sku":"9780143774907","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4465263482239.jpg?v=1749834757","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/cousins-by-patricia-grace-9780143774907","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}