{"product_id":"the-water-takes-by-sarah-walker","title":"The Water Takes by Sarah Walker","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs13DCAC4{text-align:left;margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs95B300B{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;} .cs6639F7B{11pt;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Calibri;} .cs4639DCB{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Calibri;} .cs75B323B{11pt;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003eAN UNIMAGINABLE APOCALYPSE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003eA SCARED YOUNG GIRL.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003eA STUBBORN OLD WOMAN.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003eNEITHER WILL SURVIVE WITHOUT THE OTHER.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003ePam is in her mid-seventies, widowed and hiding from the world behind a caustic sense of humour. Her health is declining, and she’s afraid of dying alone, but her most pressing concern is complaining to the council about her waterlogged garden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eWhen Pam’s ten-year-old neighbour, Charlotte, is foisted upon her, a tentative friendship begins to unfurl, cracking open Pam’s hard exterior.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eBut the puddles in the garden become pools, and then sinkholes. Nowhere seems safe. With no help coming, Pam and Charlotte can only shelter in place for so long – eventually, they know they must attempt to navigate a catastrophically altered world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs4639DCB\"\u003eThe Water Takes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eis a work of astonishing literary imagination with the urgent page-turning propulsion of a thriller. Full of surprises and revelations, with a sense of humanity that is never clichéd or sentimental, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs4639DCB\"\u003eThe Water Takes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs6639F7B\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003ewill make you laugh and cry – and it will stay with you forever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003e‘Made me laugh and roar and weep.’ KATE MILDENHALL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003e'Dizzyingly good.' JACQUELINE BUBLITZ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Kangaroo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44265464987736,"sku":"9781761633324","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/8343\/1000\/files\/9781761633324_1.jpg?v=1782092059","url":"https:\/\/redkangaroobooks.au\/products\/the-water-takes-by-sarah-walker","provider":"Red Kangaroo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}