{"product_id":"9780733642104","title":"A Spanner in the Works : The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasure. She was a woman of 'rare achievement' who excelled as a motoring entrepreneur and inventor. Young, petite, boyish and full of charm, Alice was the first woman in Australia to successfully pull off an almost impossible feat: without family or husband to back her financially, she built a garage to her own specifications and established the country's first motor service run entirely by women.\n\u003cbr\u003eAlice was also an adventurer, and her most famous road trip occurred in 1926 in a Baby Austin she had purchased exclusively to prove that the smallest car off a production line could successfully make the 1500-mile-plus journey on and off road from Melbourne to Alice Springs, central Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, less than a week after her return, Alice was fatally shot in the head at the rear of her own garage. She was only twenty-nine years old. Every newspaper in the country mourned her sudden loss. A coronial inquest concluded that Alice's death was accidental but testimonies at the inquest were full of inconsistencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlice's life was brief but extraordinary, and in this richly detailed and entertainingly told book this pioneering Australian woman comes to life for readers for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Au","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49792630554872,"sku":"EB_HI1300_C18-03_SYDNEY","price":32.98,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780733642104-1.jpg?v=1783609266","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780733642104","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}