{"product_id":"9781844089307","title":"The Last Kings of Sark","description":"Author: Rosa Rankin-Gee\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781844089307\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 24 Jun 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 288 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'My name is Jude. And because of Law, \u003ci\u003eHey\u003c\/i\u003e and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.'\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local boy called Pip. But when she arrives, the family is unsettling- Pip is awkward, over-literal, and adamant he doesn't need a tutor, and upstairs, his enigmatic mother Esme casts a shadow over the house.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnter Sofi: the family's holiday cook, a magnetic, mercurial Polish girl with appalling kitchen hygiene, who sings to herself and sleeps naked. When the father of the family goes away on business, Pip's science lessons are replaced by midday rose and scallop-smuggling, and summer begins. Soon something surprising starts to touch the three together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut those strange, golden weeks cannot last forever. Later, in Paris, Normandy and London, they find themselves looking for the moment that changed everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompelling, dark and funny, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Kings of Sark\u003c\/i\u003e is tale of complicated love, only children and missed opportunities, from an extraordinary new writer.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924981104798,"sku":"ING-9781844089307","price":35.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781844089307.jpg?v=1782956872","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781844089307","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}