{"product_id":"everything-i-knew","title":"Everything I Knew","description":"It's 1964 and the little wine-producing town of Penola, in South Australia's Coonawarra, is about to have its complacency shattered. Robbie Burns, the precocious only child of the local cop, is on the cusp of adolescence and high school. Up until now his life has consisted chiefly of rabbiting and carrying out experiments in the backyard shed, often with explosive results. But that year, an exotic element enters Robbie's chemical mix in the form of a new English teacher. Miss Peach is a thoroughly modern sixties girl, all Capri pants and Kool cigarettes and sky-blue Vespa. Her big-city views on poetry and art are too much for the quaint folk of Penola, but they fire the prodigious imagination and burgeoning lust of young Robbie like nothing he's experienced. Desperate to please, he writes outrageously plotted sci-fi stories for her, and the more free reign he allows his imagination, the less control he seems to have over his own actions. Until his choices become scarcely credible - and irreversible. Everything I Knew is a sexual farce with a serious heart. Goldsworthy takes the teacher-student sex taboo and turns it on its head. We are all, he argues, expatriates from the country of our childhood, determined to believe we did things more innocently there. But adolescence is far from innocent, and in this novel it's a volatile interlude with tragic consequences. Robbie's obsession with Miss Peach leads him to lie, to betray friendship, and eventually to sabotage his own future.","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44751160475690,"sku":"JB-884","price":1.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/0247\/8890\/files\/884-7066e79a-7e62-402e-baea-87531120af37.jpg?v=1787702463","url":"https:\/\/www.larterslibrary.com\/products\/everything-i-knew","provider":"Larters Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}