{"product_id":"2026100009400-secondhand-the-place-at-whitton-signed","title":"The Place At Whitton (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First UK Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: DJ: price clipped; worn along the edges; no major tears. Pages: Moderate foxing on prelims and book block. Binding remains tight; boards - square and clean. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA taut and morally charged thriller from one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, The Place at Whitton announces Thomas Keneally's arrival as a writer of extraordinary psychological depth and narrative precision. Set within the claustrophobic world of a Catholic seminary in rural Australia, the novel chronicles a young seminarian's harrowing confrontation with sin, guilt, and the suffocating weight of institutional faith, as a suspicious death begins to unravel the carefully maintained order of the sacred community around him.\n\nKeneally's prose is spare yet richly atmospheric, drawing the reader into a world where spiritual crisis and human fallibility collide with devastating consequence. Written with the moral seriousness and unflinching candour that would come to define his later masterworks, this early novel illustrates his lifelong preoccupation with conscience, complicity, and the darkness that can fester beneath the surface of devout and ordered lives. A work that rewards the patient reader with mounting dread — The Place at Whitton leaves one questioning just how much truth any institution can afford to reveal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203105136859,"sku":"2026100009400-SECONDHAND","price":800.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/caa17179-2c92-4477-bb9d-412f1baa08bc.png?v=1788143810","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009400-secondhand-the-place-at-whitton-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}