{"product_id":"2026100009028-secondhand-bettanys-book-signed","title":"Bettany's Book (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo centuries apart, two women share a name, a bloodline, and an unbreakable hunger for justice — and Tom Keneally's Bettany's Book weaves their stories into a sweeping, morally urgent epic that spans colonial Australia and modern-day Sudan. The novel chronicles the parallel lives of Jonathan Bettany, a nineteenth-century Australian sheep farmer whose wife Sarah becomes entangled in the brutal realities of convict society, and Stella Bettany, a contemporary aid worker confronting the horrors of famine and civil war in Africa. Keneally constructs a dual narrative of extraordinary ambition, drawing direct lines between the colonial exploitation of the past and the humanitarian crises of the present.\n\nRenowned for his mastery of historical scope — as demonstrated in his Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark — Keneally once again proves himself one of Australia's most essential literary voices. Bettany's Book is a rich, compassionate, and intellectually demanding work that interrogates themes of conscience, complicity, and the enduring cost of human suffering across generations. The question it leaves burning is a deceptively simple one: what does it truly mean to bear witness?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336814239963,"sku":"2026100009028-SECONDHAND","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a4debd78-f945-4fd7-998c-412e056eb7a8.png?v=1789958590","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009028-secondhand-bettanys-book-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}