{"product_id":"the-loney-the-contemporary-classic","title":"Andrew Michael Hurley: The Loney [2015] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Modern classics in this genre are rare, and instant ones even rarer; \u003ci\u003eThe Loney\u003c\/i\u003e, however, looks as though it may be both' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was impossible to truly know the place. It changed with each influx and retreat, and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they could escape its insidious currents. No one ever went near the water. No one apart from us, that is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn't stay hidden for ever, no matter how much I wanted it to. No matter how hard I tried to forget . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hurley, Andrew Michael","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50544071377235,"sku":"XV81473619821","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hurley-andrew-michael-the-loney-the-contemporary-classic-xv81473619821-1145648642.jpg?v=1741477045","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-loney-the-contemporary-classic","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}