{"product_id":"we-were-young-9781474611725","title":"We Were Young","description":"\u003ci\u003e'Young then. Before Alva and everything.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself 'the leftover man'. Through talent and charm, he has escaped small town life and a haunted family. But now his peers are all getting divorced, dying, or buying trampolines in the suburbs. Cormac is dating former students, staying out all night and receiving boilerplate rejection emails for his work, propped up by a constellation of the women and ex-lovers in his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the last weeks of the year, Cormac meets Caroline, an ambitious young dancer, and embarks on a miniature odyssey of intimacy. Simultaneously, he must take responsibility for his married brother, whose mid-life crisis forces them both to reckon with a death in the family that hangs over those left behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in Dublin, a city built on burial pits, \u003ci\u003eWe Were Young \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzlingly clever, deeply enjoyable novel from a Sunday Times Short Story Award-Winning author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNiamh Campbell's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Happy\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the John McGahern Book Prize and the Kate O'Brien Award. In 2020, she also won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. She lives and works in Dublin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"George Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicholson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50521615859986,"sku":"9781474611725","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00d116ee-ef24-4dbd-8998-c7e97db46aa9.jpg?v=1731109065","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-were-young-9781474611725","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}