{"product_id":"cygnet","title":"Cygnet","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth - and, in its quiet way, the end of the world' - China Mieville\u003c\/b\u003e The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island. Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed - an unwelcome reminder of the life they left behind, and one they want rid of.\u003ci\u003eCYGNET\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a young woman battling against the thrashing waves of loneliness and depression, and how she learns to find hope, laughter and her own voice in a world that's crumbling around her.\u003cb\u003e'A sad, funny, highly original novel. Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in \u003ci\u003eCYGNET\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e Blake Morrison, author of \u003ci\u003eTHINGS MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Dialogue Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44751165128746,"sku":"JB-853","price":1.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/0247\/8890\/files\/13456633482312.jpg?v=1787702618","url":"https:\/\/www.larterslibrary.com\/products\/cygnet","provider":"Larters Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}