{"product_id":"cold-boys-wood","title":"Birch: Cold Boy's Wood [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, this is a brilliant and timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind from Booker-shortlisted author Carol Birch. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDid you hear? Big landslip over by Ercol. Last night. The road into Gully's closed off. They found a body. Got police tape. All that stuff. They only do that for murder, don't they? Murder! \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA body has been uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of murder, but Dan - sometime mechanic, constant drunk - is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories. Watching him from the dark is Lorna, a lost soul living in the woods, haunted by ghosts and a vision from her childhood: a cold boy standing alone in Gallinger's field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, \u003ci\u003eCold Boy's Wood\u003c\/i\u003e is an arresting, timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A haunting murder mystery, \u003ci\u003eCold Boy's Wood\u003c\/i\u003e is also a double portrait of damaged souls' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Crime Club\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fusing the supernatural with the psychological, Birch's story is, at its heart, a human one' \u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Her prose has an irresistible vigour... Her words sing on the page' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birch, Carol","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42077827072185,"sku":"9781838939434","price":11.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/birch-carol-birch-cold-boy-s-wood-2021-paperback-9781838939434-58383223587155.jpg?v=1727675224","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/cold-boys-wood","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}