{"product_id":"calamity-club-trade-paperback","title":"The Calamity Club (Trade Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Smart, funny, and driven by unforgettable characters ... a must-read' Bonnie Garmus, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLessons in Chemistry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'With exquisite storytelling and unforgettable characters, The Calamity Club is a joyful, heartbreaking, heartwarming read. I loved it so much' Jennie Godfrey, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe List of Suspicious Things\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As witty, bold, and transportive as it is heartbreaking and compassionate, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Calamity Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is storytelling at its finest. Stockett’s masterfully drawn characters are simply unforgettable' Shelley Read, author of the international bestseller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGo as a River\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You give a girl a taste of fresh air and then you take it away―she’ll grow fierce and wild to get it back.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOxford, Mississippi, 1933.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleven-year-old \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMeg Lefleur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has learned the hard way to rely on no one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the 'unadoptable' girls at the town’s orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen she meets \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBirdie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a young woman who has come to Oxford determined to remind her socialite sister of the impoverished family she left behind, for the first time in a long while it seems someone else might care about Meg’s future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie begins to suspect her sister’s charmed life may be founded on a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman haunted by loss who has been pushed to the brink with nothing left to lose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn together by circumstance, they find unexpected kinship among a disreputable, determined band of women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in a town steeped in hypocrisy, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences …\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBold, heartwarming, and riotously funny,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Calamity Club\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis an unforgettable story of resilience and friendship, and a sisterhood of underestimated women who risk everything to take back control of their fates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Stockett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065197674674,"sku":"9780241796917","price":395.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9780241796917.jpg?v=1777472003","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/calamity-club-trade-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}