{"product_id":"brass","title":"Helen Walsh: Brass [2004] paperback","description":"Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilley is, clever, spiky and adored by men - yet utterly forlorn. Even though she has the devotion of her professor father, Jerry, and the respect of the hard-knocks in South Liverpool, Millie feels a sense of growing alienation.  Increasingly disillusioned with her University course and fellow students, she seeks an escape in the underbelly of Liverpool's Cathedral area - home to crackheads, pimps, pushers and, most intriguing to Millie, whores. And when an encounter with a world weary prostitute turns into an after hours odyssey of drink fuelled self-abuse it, ultimately, leads Millie toward questioning who she is and what she wants to get out of life.  Shockingly candid, brutally poetic, Helen Walsh has created a portrait of a city and a generation that offers a female perspective on the harsh truth of growing up in today's Britain. Brass is an unsettling but ultimately compassionate account of the possibilities of identity and the desirability of love.","brand":"Walsh, Helen","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48024783421779,"sku":"XV81841954844","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/walsh-helen-brass-xv81841954844-55516665151827.jpg?v=1727648595","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/brass","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}