{"product_id":"the-country-schoolmaster-a-mystery-in-88-letters","title":"The Country Schoolmaster: A Mystery in 88 Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eA mesmerising reconstruction of a hundred-year-old true story Kate Grenville discovered in the archives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I stood there holding the hundred-year-old letter with a feeling that was familiar from other archives, other bulging files of dog-eared paper. It was a blood-running-fast, itchy-palm, eyes-wide-open feeling of stumbling on something. A story ...'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRummaging around in the archives one afternoon, Kate Grenville comes across an innocuous-looking file full of letters about a schoolteacher in country New South Wales. Intrigued, she keeps reading - and discovers a tale far more curious and complex than first appears. Was Joseph Connor savagely beating the students in his care? Or was he the victim of a small-town vendetta? And what went so terribly wrong between him and his daughter?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, Grenville simply has to know: was Connor a victim or a villain? Part colonial cold case, part locked-room mystery, part the dance of a writer's imagination among facts and semi-facts, The Country Schoolmaster is a book like no other. In it, the novelist comes to understand the seductive pleasure of story-making, but also its dangerous limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47502132117675,"sku":"9781760646257","price":37.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/3732\/9579\/files\/9781760646257.jpg?v=1784982543","url":"https:\/\/notjustbooks.com.au\/products\/the-country-schoolmaster-a-mystery-in-88-letters","provider":"Not Just Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}