{"product_id":"replacement-girl-by-ann-beaglehole-copy","title":"Replacement Girl by Ann Beaglehole","description":"\u003cp\u003eNazi persecution, oppression behind the Iron Curtain, the struggle of strangers in a strange land. This sombre history haunts the adults in Ann Beaglehole's novel Replacement Girl while their children expand into the bright, wide open landscape of their adopted country.Set in fifties to seventies Wellington, Replacement Girl vividly brings the immigrant experience to life. The story moves back and forwards in time and between New Zealand and Budapest, as Eva grows up in a family struggling with the after-effects of earlier losses and adjustment to a new culture. Eva and her group of four friends, all immigrant children and 'different', have to make their own adjustments and choices to survive and thrive in 1950s Wellington. They just want to leave the parents' past behind and live the carefree life of their schoolmates.With sensitivity and humour, Ann Beaglehole takes the reader inside the immigrant experience so that we see mid-century New Zealand through their eyes. Replacement Girl explores the tensions between generations and cultures. It is a story of love, relationships and cross-cultural marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43730917130314,"sku":"6806p","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6806p.jpg?v=1782190231","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/replacement-girl-by-ann-beaglehole-copy","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}