{"product_id":"frances-kay-micka-2010","title":"Frances Kay: Micka [2010]","description":"\u003cp\u003eMicka loves drawing and wants a pup, but with older brothers into violence and petty crime, and a mother who can't read the notes his teacher sends home from school, neither he nor the pup stand much of a chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Then a new boy, Laurie, starts at Micka's school. The two boys both have vivid imaginations, but Laurie's fantasies are of magic and revenge, and he soon pulls Micka into a dangerous game where the line between make-believe and real life -- and, ultimately, death -- is increasingly blurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written in direct, uncompromising yet compassionate prose, and with a breathtaking clarity of insight, \u003ci\u003eMicka\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishingly assured debut -- and an unforgettable story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Micka feels like a book that wrote itself . . . Frances Kay is an accomplished story teller who has found her darkest tale' Anne Enright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'I read this at a single sitting. Once started it was impossible to put aside . . . Atomising and searing, MICKA is a remarkable first novel' Carlo Gebler\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kay, Frances","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":55609769328979,"sku":"9780330513821","price":10.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55609769361747,"sku":"XG80330513821","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/9780330513821.jpg?v=1793104455","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/frances-kay-micka-2010","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}