{"product_id":"sarah-moss-ripeness-2025-hardback","title":"Sarah Moss: Ripeness [2025] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The achievement of a lifetime' - Jessie Burton, author of \u003ci\u003eThe House of Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A book of lasting pleasures' - Eleanor Catton, Booker Prize-winning author of\u003ci\u003e Birnam Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A powerful and beautifully written story of family, friendship and identity' -\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust out of school and teetering on the brink of adulthood, Edith is sent alone to rural Italy. Her task is simple: support her sister Lydia, a brilliant but brittle ballet dancer, through the final weeks of her pregnancy. Once the baby is born, she is to make a phone call that will change all of their lives forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades later, Edith is living a contented life in Ireland, happily divorced and unexpectedly free. But when her friend Meabh receives an email from a stranger claiming to be her brother, everything shifts. As Meabh confronts a history she never knew she had, Edith must finally face the truth of that long-ago summer, and the secret she has carried for a lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Tender and rueful . . . Sarah Moss is a marvel of insight and eloquence' - Emma Donoghue, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of our greatest living writers' - Katherine May, author of \u003ci\u003eWintering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Sarah Moss:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Throws much contemporary writing into the shade' Hilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003e'One of our very best contemporary novelists' \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant mind'\u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Moss has quietly been putting out some of the most interesting and carefully sculpted novels of recent years' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the finest contemporary writers working in Britain today' \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Is Sarah Moss the best British writer never nominated for the Booker?' \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nothing escapes her sly humour and brilliant touch' Jessie Burton\u003cbr\u003e'The most brilliant writer. She deserves to win all the prizes' Joanna Trollope Trollope\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moss, Sarah","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52447644123475,"sku":"9781529035490","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/moss-sarah-sarah-moss-ripeness-2025-hardback-9781529035490-1208055337.jpg?v=1763849130","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/sarah-moss-ripeness-2025-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}