{"product_id":"9781529088021","title":"In the Lives of Puppets","description":"Author: TJ Klune\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529088021\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 432\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 40mm\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author TJ Klune, \u003ci\u003eIn the Lives of Puppets\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.\u003c\/b\u003e In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees live three robots – fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled ‘HAP’, he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio – a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming. Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: can he accept love with strings attached? \u003cb\u003eInspired by Carlo Collodi’s \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Pinocchio\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Lives of Puppets\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you \u003ci\u003eThe House in the Cerulean Sea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnder the Whispering Door\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45065852158110,"sku":"ADS-9781529088021","price":42.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529088021.jpg?v=1738729850","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529088021","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}