{"product_id":"2026200014803-secondhand-lucinda-brayford","title":"Lucinda Brayford","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\u003eBorn into the privileged world of Melbourne's colonial elite, Lucinda Brayford is a woman of rare beauty, intelligence, and quiet resilience — a character whose life becomes a sweeping canvas upon which Martin Boyd paints the triumphs and tragedies of three generations across two continents. Lucinda Brayford chronicles her journey from the sun-drenched drawing rooms of Australia to the sophisticated, often cruel social landscape of England, as she navigates class, marriage, love, and loss against the turbulent backdrop of the early twentieth century, including the ravages of two World Wars.\n\nBoyd, one of Australia's most distinguished and underappreciated literary voices, crafts this saga with a sharp satirical eye and an elegiac tenderness that recalls the great European novelists of manners. The novel stands as a landmark of Australian literature, dissecting the colonial psyche and the painful tensions between Old World aspiration and New World identity with unflinching clarity. First published in 1946 and championed by literary luminaries including Evelyn Waugh, Lucinda Brayford remains a masterwork of emotional depth and social observation — a novel that asks, with devastating subtlety, what is truly lost when a person surrenders their authentic self to the demands of society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203148161243,"sku":"2026200014803-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/66c6261d-5e70-4f8f-b503-54f94650eb26.png?v=1788144702","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014803-secondhand-lucinda-brayford","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}