{"product_id":"mansfield-and-me","title":"Mansfield and Me","description":"\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"5ca7b4bb-4d85-46ab-200e-316136164252\"]' data-w-id=\"5ca7b4bb-4d85-46ab-200e-316136164252\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA graphic memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"1031551f-8f48-bd4d-87a5-084782067379\"]' data-w-id=\"1031551f-8f48-bd4d-87a5-084782067379\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-palette=\"Strong\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"48d47a5f-2c1e-9920-2537-a8ec3a1d4d2d\"]' data-w-id=\"48d47a5f-2c1e-9920-2537-a8ec3a1d4d2d\"\u003eLONGLISTED: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-wf-id='[\"1031551f-8f48-bd4d-87a5-084782067379\"]' data-w-id=\"1031551f-8f48-bd4d-87a5-084782067379\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"fc920153-c97d-6f00-dd82-21ec610531c1\"]' data-w-id=\"fc920153-c97d-6f00-dd82-21ec610531c1\"\u003eThe only writer to inspire jealousy in Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield hung out with the modernists, dabbled in Alistair Crowley's druggy occult gatherings and spent her last days in a French commune before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 34.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-palette=\"Paragraph\" data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\" data-wf-id='[\"9216b6a7-8eef-e76e-f688-2a5ba5d63718\"]' data-w-id=\"9216b6a7-8eef-e76e-f688-2a5ba5d63718\"\u003eHaving written, ‘Oh to be a writer, a real writer’, she became as famous for her letters and diaries as for her short stories. 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