{"product_id":"missing-fay-hb-w3","title":"Adam Thorpe: Missing Fay: Thorpe Adam [2017] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA spirited, restless fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim - another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals - whether aware or unaware of her presence or absence, all touched in life-changing ways.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid is an eco-campaigner on a family holiday on the bleak Lincolnshire coast; Howard, a retired steel worker with some dodgy friends; Cosmina, a Romanian immigrant struggling as a care-home nurse; Sheena, middle-aged and single, running a kiddies' clothes shop, is sexually entangled with the peculiar Gavin, while dreaming of Paul, up the lane; Mike, the misanthropic owner of the haunted second-hand bookshop, is secretly in love with Cosmina; and Chris, a TV producer become Trappist monk, can't quite leave the ordinary world behind. All are involuntary witnesses to the lost girl; paths cross, threads touch, connections are made or lost. Is Fay alive or dead? Or somewhere in between?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam Thorpe has once again created a cast of brilliant eccentrics bound together by the accident of geography, in a novel of effortlessly elegant prose, forensic observation and resonant power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thorpe, Adam","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44231875133730,"sku":"9780224098007","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/thorpe-adam-adam-thorpe-missing-fay-thorpe-adam-2017-hardback-9780224098007-58500643094867.jpg?v=1727785567","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/missing-fay-hb-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}