{"product_id":"stakes","title":"Stakes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author’s bestselling memoir, \u003cem\u003eGrand\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire’s badness in the house with you.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker’s \u003cem\u003eDracula\u003c\/em\u003e. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to Dracula, reckoning with her own history and a changing world: generation-spanning shame and trauma given voice by #MeToo and the horrors emerging from Irish soil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a century after readers were first mesmerised by \u003cem\u003eDracula\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStakes \u003c\/em\u003etransposes its electric themes of transgression, intoxication and sexual danger onto Noelle’s own life, asking: what’s the difference between an inheritance and a curse?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA funny, visceral follow-up to the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eGrand\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStakes \u003c\/em\u003ecelebrates the power of a gothic horror to help you face the parts of life that scare you most.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noelle McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49246458839192,"sku":"9781776951031","price":40.9,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/5193\/1032\/files\/Noelle-McCarthy-Stakes-Mrs-Blackwell-s-Village-Bookshop-Greytown-NZ-2.jpg?v=1781486091","url":"https:\/\/villagebookshop.co.nz\/products\/stakes","provider":"Mrs Blackwell's Village Bookshop Greytown","version":"1.0","type":"link"}