{"product_id":"1523387","title":"Swimmers' Rope by Stephanie Johnson","description":"A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen, Norman goes to visit him. There he is forced to confront a mysterious adult truth. Later, in their twenties, the two men commit an act so appalling that it ruptures their friendship for many years. In 1972 the elderly Norman meets a young woman in a pub. Burdened by the memory he must at long last assuage, he presses Bronwyn into becoming his unwilling confessor. This 2008 Vintage Paperback is in \u003cb\u003e good condition\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781869790257 SKU: 1523387 \u003ci\u003eNote: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48528113467669,"sku":"1523387","price":15.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/2695\/4036\/files\/1523387.jpg?v=1725873817","url":"https:\/\/bookhaven.live\/products\/1523387","provider":"Book Haven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}