{"product_id":"2026200013694-secondhand-the-montforts","title":"The Montforts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew novels capture the sweep of colonial ambition and its quiet devastations quite like The Montforts, Martin Boyd's richly textured chronicle of an Anglo-Australian family navigating the turbulent currents of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the sprawling Montfort dynasty — restless, proud, and perpetually caught between the Old World and the New — Boyd traces the inheritance of privilege, disappointment, and longing that passes through each generation like a recurring fever, as his characters shuttle between England and Australia in pursuit of identity, belonging, and social prestige.\n\nBoyd writes with a delicate, ironic intelligence that distinguishes him as one of Australia's most sophisticated literary voices, capable of exposing the pretensions of the Anglo-Australian gentry with both affection and unsparing clarity. First published in 1928, The Montforts anticipates the celebrated Langton tetralogy for which Boyd is best remembered, and stands as a formative work in the tradition of Australian literary fiction — raising the enduring question of whether a family shaped by two worlds can ever truly belong to either.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160921252059,"sku":"2026200013694-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0c305d35-da02-48c7-910e-b02a2750b1ee.png?v=1787188397","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013694-secondhand-the-montforts","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}