{"product_id":"crocodile-soup-julia-darling","title":"crocodile soup - Julia Darling","description":"\u003cp\u003eMedium paperback, light spine creasing, yellowing pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDomestic Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrocodile Soup\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e opens, she thinks she has found \"the One\" -- the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee at the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric, childhood through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanished to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost -- a Victorian poet who haunts the attic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a narrative studded with relentless humor and giddy self-deprecation, Julia Darling introduces an endearing cast of characters whose shared and wayward search for love is irresistible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belle's Books secondhand books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51613224861976,"sku":"DARLINGJ001","price":10.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/7574\/9656\/files\/crocodile_soup_-_Julia_Darling.png?v=1769882559","url":"https:\/\/bellesbookssa.com\/products\/crocodile-soup-julia-darling","provider":"Belle's Books Online Secondhand Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}