{"product_id":"hearts-and-bones-love-songs-for-late-youth-9781529079913","title":"Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Vivid, memorable and beautifully crafted' - Sarah Moss, author of \u003ci\u003eSummerwater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliant collection, from a remarkable talent' - Joseph O'Connor, author of \u003ci\u003eShadowplay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHearts and Bones\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we survive it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA young woman learns to wield her power, leaving casualties in her wake, while a man from a small town finds solace in a strange new hobby. A watchful child feels a breaking point approach as her mother struggles to keep her life on track, and another daughter steps onto a stage while her family in the audience hope that she is strong enough now to take on the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst-time lovers make mistakes, brothers and sisters try to forgive one another, and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true. Quiet revolutions happen in living rooms, on river banks, in packed pubs and empty churches, and years later we wonder why we ever did the things we did. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in Hearts and Bones, Niamh Mulvey's debut collection, look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that we've brought the old gods down. Witty, sharply observed and deeply moving, these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Highly accomplished, inventive . . . what stands out is Mulvey's command of her own originality' - \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Honest, daringly fresh and stunningly written, these stories cut right to the very essence of what it means to be young' - Jan Carson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Raptures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNiamh Mulvey is from Kilkenny, Ireland, and is now based in South London. Her short fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Stinging Fly, Banshee \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSouthword \u003c\/i\u003eand has been shortlisted for the Seán O'Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50498051211538,"sku":"9781529079913","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_439391b1-7cc2-48c5-8a9d-22503b13486a.jpg?v=1730726364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hearts-and-bones-love-songs-for-late-youth-9781529079913","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}