{"product_id":"the-shepherds-hut-by-tim-winton","title":"The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eTim Winton, one of Australia’s most lauded novelists, has a “gift for making the vernacular lyrical”, said Rachel Seiffert in The Guardian. His protagonists tend to be “outsiders, beyond the pale” – and his latest novel “opens true to form”. Jaxie Clackton is a teenager whose mother has died of cancer and who lives in a small town in western Australia with his violently alcoholic father. When an accident with a car jack results in the latter’s death, Jaxie “knows who will be blamed” – so “he cuts and runs” in a stolen car.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eJaxie’s flight leads him into an “inhospitable hinterland”, where he chances upon a defrocked Irish priest “living like an old church father in an abandoned shepherd’s hut”, said Brian Martin in The Spectator. The pair “speak different languages” – the one studied and philosophical, the other raw and disordered – but they form a bond: in the priest’s “broken-down hovel”, Jaxie learns “self-awareness”. While the ending, designed to shock, is “not altogether unexpected”, this novel is for the most part a captivating blend of roughness and tenderness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54037978022164,"sku":"ixl1789765566832","price":13.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/the-shepherds-hut-by-tim-winton_1.jpg?v=1789765593","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/the-shepherds-hut-by-tim-winton","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}