{"product_id":"9781529153798-little-monsters","title":"Little Monsters","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePERFECT FOR FANS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE AND THE PAPER PALACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Smart, funny and beautifully written. Brodeur is a brilliant dissector of family relationships, a lyricist of the natural world, and an astute observer of our inner turmoils' \u003c\/b\u003eMONICA ALI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gorgeous, gripping, I couldn't put it down' \u003c\/b\u003eRUTH OZEKI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful, lyrical and unvarnished, Adrienne Brodeur's \u003ci\u003eLittle Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e delivers its powerful emotional punches so subtly that they sneak up on you and leave you floored'\u003c\/b\u003e MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of THE PAPER PALACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families and long-buried secrets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKen and Abby Gardner were raised in a remote home on Cape Cod. As adults, their relationship is strained, but their lives are still deeply intertwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family, but when his wife walks in on him in an internet chatroom, she demands they go to therapy. Abby is a talented artist who depends on her brother's goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them as a single parent. As his seventieth birthday approaches and he begins to stare down his mortality, he comes off his bipolar disorder medication in order to make one last scienti?c breakthrough; he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harbouring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family - Steph, who doesn't make her connection known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet over one fraught summer, \u003ci\u003eLittle Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e is an absorbing, sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out - its Edenic lushness and its snakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40900173004897,"sku":"9781529153798","price":13.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32512245.jpg?v=1737647085","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529153798-little-monsters","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}