{"product_id":"the-god-boy-by-ian-cross-9780141187440","title":"The God Boy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in a small town in New Zealand, the story is told through the eyes of a gauche thirteen-year-old boy called Jimmy Sullivan. It is the haunting tale of a young boy growing up in a Catholic household, seeing things he shouldn't and struggling to cope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book appears to be domestic in scope and provincial in vision, but by the end of the novel, the reader has encountered murder, and witnessed the warping of a promising mind and the destruction of a family. In this deceptively modest masterpiece, the cruelty beneath society's surface is revealed, all the more devastatingly so through the ordinariness of the location.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe God Boy\u003c\/em\u003e by Ian Cross is a powerful exploration of innocence lost and the dark undercurrents of human behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671999336684,"sku":"9780141187440","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6676383482238.jpg?v=1752830735","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-god-boy-by-ian-cross-9780141187440","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}