{"product_id":"wanting-by-richard-flanagan-9781761048180","title":"Wanting","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRichard Flanagan's Wanting\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us that he is one of the most exciting novelists working anywhere, full stop - The Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The bestselling, universally lauded novel of desire and its denial from acclaimed writer Richard Flanagan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVan Diemen's Land, 1841. Mathinna, the adopted Aboriginal daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, sits for her portrait. She is the subject of a grand experiment in civilisation - one that will determine whether science and reason can be imposed in place of savagery and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYears pass. Sir John Franklin disappears on an Arctic expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified as reports of cannibalism filter back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin's story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs several lives become entwined, \u003cem\u003eWanting\u003c\/em\u003e transforms the classical myth of Leda and the swan into a novel about the ways in which desire - and its denial - shape us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46534305022188,"sku":"9781761048180","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27868743482814.jpg?v=1749423814","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/wanting-by-richard-flanagan-9781761048180","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}