{"product_id":"home-before-dark-park-ruth","title":"Home Before Dark Park Ruth","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuth Park wrote some of Australia's most beloved novels — *The Harp in the South*, *Playing Beattie Bow* — but her own story might be her best work. Born dirt-poor in New Zealand during the Depression, Park clawed her way to becoming one of the country's most successful writers. This memoir doesn't sugarcoat: the poverty was grinding, the sexism constant, the rejections brutal. But Park writes with sharp wit and zero self-pity, chronicling her marriage to fellow writer D'Arcy Niland, raising kids while freelancing, and navigating the Australian literary scene when women writers were barely taken seriously. It's funny, clear-eyed, and deeply human — the kind of autobiography that makes you understand not just a writer's life, but an entire era. For anyone who loves Australian literature, writing memoirs, or stories about people who refused to give up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47512043716773,"sku":"BIN-F5A-BIO-22667-02-18-2026","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/patinapaperbacks.com\/products\/home-before-dark-park-ruth","provider":"Patina Paperbacks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}