{"product_id":"2026200015981-secondhand-family-matters-sixteen-stories","title":"Family Matters: Sixteen Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin the intimate architecture of everyday life, Elizabeth Berridge's Family Matters: Sixteen Stories uncovers the hidden fault lines that run beneath the surface of domestic existence, rendering the ordinary world strange, tender, and occasionally heartbreaking. Across sixteen finely crafted short stories, Berridge chronicles the quiet dramas of ordinary men and women — wives, husbands, children, and strangers — caught in the subtle tensions of love, obligation, and longing that define family life in mid-twentieth-century Britain.\n\nBerridge writes with a precise, understated elegance that invites comparison to the great British short story tradition, her prose working through implication and nuance rather than dramatic declaration. Her characters are rendered with a compassionate psychological acuity, their inner lives illuminated in brief, revelatory flashes that linger long after the page is turned. A master of the short form, she illustrates how the smallest of moments — a glance, a silence, an unspoken truth — can carry the full weight of a human life, leaving the reader to wonder what other secrets lie just beneath the surface of the familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342772281563,"sku":"2026200015981-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/23a8eec6-27e0-40c4-9635-4eeda617139a.png?v=1790048991","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015981-secondhand-family-matters-sixteen-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}