{"product_id":"the-lace-reader","title":"Brunonia Barry: The Lace Reader [2009] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawn by family. Driven by fear. Haunted by fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWould knowing the future be a gift or a burden? Or even a curse...?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThe Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future doesn't always bring good news - as Towner Whitney knows all too well. When she was just fifteen her gift sent her whole world crashing to pieces. She predicted - and then witnessed - something so horrific that she vowed never to read lace again, and fled her home and family for good. Salem is a place of ghosts for Towner, and she swore she would never return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eYet family is a powerful tie. So it is that fifteen years later, Towner finds herself back in Salem. Her beloved Great Aunt Eva has suddenly disappeared - and when you've lived a life like Eva's, that could mean real trouble. But Salem is wreathed in sickly shadows and whispered half-memories. It's fast becoming clear that the ghosts of Towner's fractured past have not been brought fully into the light. And with them comes the threat of terrifying new disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eA literary page-turner with depth, narrative power and a story that novels like 'The Thirteenth Tale' can only dream of, 'The Lace Reader' is a bewitching and tightly plotted read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barry, Brunonia","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48149821194579,"sku":"XG80007345823","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/barry-brunonia-the-lace-reader-xg80007345823-55952715219283.jpg?v=1728319042","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-lace-reader","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}