{"product_id":"9780864923622","title":"Losing Eddie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, SmithBooks\/Books in Canada First Novel Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Joy Corey's disturbing portrait of a dysfunctional family in rural New Brunswick won the prestigious SmithBooks\/Books in Canada First Novel Award. This popular dramatization of the best-selling first novel was dramatized by the author and first heard on CBC Radio in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarrated by a nameless nine-year-old girl, \u003ci\u003eLosing Eddie\u003c\/i\u003e recounts with heart-wrenching detachment a succession of tragedies that unravel an already vulnerable household on a lonely backwoods highway. Mama suffers from mental illness, Daddy hides out in the wellhouse drinking beer, and \"Sister\" has a brutish husband who slaps her around. When 15-year-old Eddie comes home from reform school, things seem to be looking up. But before long, Eddie is gone again for good — killed in a drunk-driving crash. None of this resembles the images of happy family life on TV, but Corey's stoic child narrator clings to her faith that everything will be all right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BTC Audiobooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65419940561245,"sku":null,"price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9780864923622","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}