{"product_id":"2026100009468-secondhand-a-boat-load-of-home-folk","title":"A Boat Load Of Home Folk","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\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\u003eCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the sweltering backdrop of a small Pacific island in the 1960s, Thea Astley's A Boat Load of Home Folk gathers a cast of displaced, desperate, and morally compromised characters whose lives collide with devastating precision when a hurricane bears down on their fragile world. The novel chronicles a cross-section of colonial society — missionaries, drifters, administrators, and locals — each carrying the weight of private failures and illusions that the impending storm threatens to strip bare, presenting an unflinching portrait of human frailty under pressure.\n\nAstley, one of Australia's most decorated and uncompromising literary voices, writes with a razor-sharp wit and a poet's ear for language, her prose oscillating between darkly comic and profoundly compassionate. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, this 1968 novel stands as a landmark of Australian fiction, illustrating the author's masterly ability to dissect colonialism, isolation, and the desperate need for human connection with surgical precision. A story that asks whether catastrophe can redeem the irredeemable — and leaves the answer hauntingly open.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203180601563,"sku":"2026100009468-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f04ece2d-9764-4b5e-af60-dd5e712c9d68.png?v=1788145016","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009468-secondhand-a-boat-load-of-home-folk","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}