{"product_id":"the-diamonds-of-tilly-devine-by-jackie-french","title":"The Diamonds of Tilly Devine by Jackie French","description":"\u003cp\u003eJackie French is one of Australia's most widely read authors, Senior Australian of the Year in 2015 and a former Australian Children's Laureate. The Diamonds of Tilly Devine is her new historical novel, and it is built around a real figure from Sydney's past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTilly Devine ran an empire of brothels, sly grog and gambling through 1920s and 1930s Sydney, a woman with jewels on her fingers and a pistol in her handbag. Nice girls did not work for her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 1931, the depths of the Depression. When her mother dies, Constance McKie is left with almost nothing and three ways out: starve, jump from The Gap, or take work no respectable girl would consider. Tilly offers her a place as one of her diamonds, a role that is glamorous, secret and demanding, and kept well away from the gang wars and blackmail running underneath it. Then a man is murdered in the house that has become Connie's home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA standalone historical novel set in Depression-era Sydney, for readers of Kimberley Freeman, Tea Cooper and Natasha Lester.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jackie French","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50259809108205,"sku":"9781038903907","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/8532\/4525\/files\/diamonds_of_tilly_devine_jackie_french.jpg?v=1783564532","url":"https:\/\/www.peninsularecordsandbooks.com\/products\/the-diamonds-of-tilly-devine-by-jackie-french","provider":"Peninsula Records \u0026 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}