{"product_id":"the-strong-dress-paperback","title":"The Strong Dress - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMeg Vertigan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1977 and Kate is a seventeen-year-old HSC student from Sydney's North Shore. She has dreams of becoming the next Ita Buttrose and being the editor of \u003cem\u003eCleo\u003c\/em\u003e. Yet the 1970's free love and peace vibe has not yet hit Kate's suburban home in Beecroft. Kate's carefree behaviour leads her parents to seek the advice of Doctor Jack Grafton, a maverick psychiatrist. Kate is subsequently subjected to Slumber Therapy where she is given a cocktail of drugs that leave her confused about what is real. The second part of the novel witnesses the decline of Grafton who claimed he could cure all mental illness, after multiple deaths of his patients. After Jack's suicide, a bereaved fellow psychiatrist attempts to tell the story of his sharp-minded gregarious friend and defends his increasingly irrational behaviour in the lead-up to his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike \u003cem\u003ePuberty Blues\u003c\/em\u003e for the mirror side of the harbour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Keri Glastonbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA confronting puzzle that startles with its sharp, vivid enactment of a tragedy of human innocence caught in the grip of a kind of blithe corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Carmel Bird, author of \u003cem\u003eThe White Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47445489320114,"sku":"9781922571649","price":28.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/59ca2f586ded624ad91c8bc38f171ac0.webp?v=1778722326","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-strong-dress-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}