{"product_id":"be-near-me-9780156033961","title":"Be Near Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Always trust a stranger,\" said David's mother when he returned from Rome. \"It's the people you know who let you down.\" \u003c\/p\u003eHalf a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness--his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present. In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O'Hagan explores the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in a faithless age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO'Hagan, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eANDREW O'HAGAN was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His previous novels have been awarded the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318184022290,"sku":"9780156033961","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa47538b-94fb-47b4-aa16-fecac22568bc.jpg?v=1727550318","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/be-near-me-9780156033961","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}