{"product_id":"stakes-a-memoir","title":"Stakes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author's bestselling memoir, Grand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire's badness in the house with you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker's Dracula. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to Dracula, reckoning with her own history and a changing world- generation-spanning shame and trauma given voice by #MeToo and the horrors emerging from Irish soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than a century after readers were first mesmerised by Dracula, Stakes transposes its electric themes of transgression, intoxication and sexual danger onto Noelle's own life, asking- what's the difference between an inheritance and a curse?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA funny, visceral follow-up to the acclaimed Grand, Stakes celebrates the power of a gothic horror to help you face the parts of life that scare you most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePage Count: 320 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImprint: Penguin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: June 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9781776951031\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noelle McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42254597062711,"sku":"9781776951031","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0269\/8166\/2775\/files\/9781776951031.jpg?v=1780360950","url":"https:\/\/www.booketybookbooks.co.nz\/products\/stakes-a-memoir","provider":"Bookety Book Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}