{"product_id":"9780099494065-secondhand-what-becomes","title":"What Becomes","description":"'What Becomes marshals all the qualities of her justly praised writing: unflinching insight, clear and spacious prose, a narrative voice that bounces between grave compassion and bantering wickedness and plenty of black comedy' -  Daily Telegraph\n\nA.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable.\n\nShe reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human compassion and leaps of black humour.\n\nFrom the winner of the Costa Book Award for Day.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49328316580059,"sku":"9780099494065-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a5b57bc9-ec11-4945-ad41-6e5f1b5d4960.jpg?v=1789749714","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780099494065-secondhand-what-becomes","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}