{"product_id":"poppy","title":"Poppy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Poppy, Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect and sort the evidence of her mother's life. But when the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the threads of history and memory into imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and sang to her children until, suddenly one day in 1959, she was taken away to a sanatorium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat had gone wrong in a family that everyone described as happy? What pulled Poppy through the years of shock treatment and despair? These are some of the questions her daughter must ask before she can make peace with her own past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn accepting the force of both history and fiction, the biographer-daughter becomes as vulnerable as her subject, drawing the reader into her reflections on the resilience of love, and on the nature of family, faith and friendship. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drusilla Modjeska","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42963638845609,"sku":"9780869140994","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/download_2_129738f5-938d-4104-bb72-08d57bb2e4d9.jpg?v=1678499911","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/poppy","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}