{"product_id":"2026600003173-secondhand-the-scapegoat","title":"The Scapegoat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterwork of psychological suspense, The Scapegoat chronicles the unsettling story of John, a lonely English academic who, while traveling through France, encounters his exact double — a dissolute French aristocrat named Jean de Gué. When de Gué engineers a sinister exchange of identities and vanishes, John is thrust into a stranger's crumbling life, forced to inhabit his family, his secrets, and his sins. Du Maurier constructs the narrative with her signature atmospheric tension, drawing the reader into a world where identity becomes dangerously fluid and moral responsibility impossible to escape. As John assumes the role of a man he does not know, the novel argues that the masks we wear — and those forced upon us — can reveal more truth than the faces beneath them. Rich with gothic undertones and sharp psychological insight, this is a gripping meditation on selfhood, guilt, and the seductive danger of becoming someone else entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792194253019,"sku":"2026600003173-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/530e69da-435c-46a0-9a09-cfe0777fdd51.png?v=1779273221","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600003173-secondhand-the-scapegoat","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}