{"product_id":"the-petticoat-parade-by-leigh-straw-9781760990558","title":"The Petticoat Parade","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Petticoat Parade\u003c\/em\u003e is a social history of Josie de Bray and the madams of the Perth red light district, written by award-winning author, Leigh Straw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJosie de Bray, also known as Madam Monnier or Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from World War I up to the 1940s. A returned soldier attempted to shoot her dead in her brothel in 1917, and her 'bungalow' became a focal point of underworld violence during the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe travelled back to France before World War II to visit her family, where she was bombed out of homes repeatedly and captured by German forces. She was a prisoner of war, and one story even places her in a concentration camp. Despite these ordeals, she survived, returned to Perth in 1947, and resumed her business on Roe Street until her death in 1953, having amassed a fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46343694188780,"sku":"9781760990558","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27292523482814.jpg?v=1744003867","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-petticoat-parade-by-leigh-straw-9781760990558","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}