{"product_id":"the-beauties-and-furies-by-christina-stead-9781925355703","title":"The Beauties and Furies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and the little naked trees which marked the horizon-searching roads.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1934, and Elvira Western has left London and her dull marriage to Paul, a doctor, for Paris and her waiting lover, Oliver, a student radical. But drab hotels and interminable discussions of politics are not her idea of romance, and soon Elvira is wishing she could leave the city of 'many beauties-and furies', and return home...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Beauties and Furies\u003c\/em\u003e, Christina Stead's second novel, dramatises a love triangle against a backdrop of political upheaval. Its publication in 1936 prompted a writer for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e to call Stead the 'most extraordinary woman novelist' since Virginia Woolf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671676965100,"sku":"9781925355703","price":17.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13882363482873.jpg?v=1752822744","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-beauties-and-furies-by-christina-stead-9781925355703","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}