{"product_id":"darwin-trip-angel-in-disguise-9781968809706","title":"Darwin Trip: Angel in Disguise","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pantzidis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford Book Writers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Book Writers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDARWIN TRIP - \u003cem\u003eANGEL IN DISGUISE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrue Story - Written in First Person by Chris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome trips are planned. Others are traps disguised as holidays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, I (Christian ) dreamed of driving from Geelong to Darwin - a clean start, a big sky, a place to build something real. I wanted to open an R\u0026amp;B club for Indigenous people, somewhere music and culture could live without judgement. That was the plan. That was the dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't know it at the time, but the family had already written the script. They called it a \u003cem\u003e\"trip of a lifetime\"\u003c\/em\u003e, but it was really a mission - a last-chance rescue disguised as a road trip. A contract was signed behind the smiles: if I took Sarah with me, she would stay clean. No alcohol. No drugs. No relapses. Seven rehabs behind her, one more chance ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought I was helping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I thought I was the guardian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But an angel in disguise can still be fooled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was chosen because she trusted me. I was chosen because they couldn't control her anymore. And I agreed because I believed in her - believed in the version of Sarah that still existed somewhere beneath the bottles, the chaos, the withdrawals, the lies, the laughter, the tears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe car was packed with hope, but addiction doesn't ride quietly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It sits beside you. It breathes. It waits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was meant to be freedom turned into a battlefield on wheels - laughter one minute, madness the next. The outback stretched for thousands of kilometers, but the real journey was inside the car, inside her, inside me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't know that by trying to save her, I'd almost lose myself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a trip to Darwin -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e a road full of heat, music, dust, broken promises, and one girl's war with the bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It's about love, loyalty, exhaustion, humour, hope - and the moment I realised guardian angels don't always have wings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes, they just have a steering wheel, a suitcase, and no idea what they've just agreed to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford Book Writers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47570743427223,"sku":"9781968809706","price":1001.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781968809706.webp?v=1774883963","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/darwin-trip-angel-in-disguise-9781968809706","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}