{"product_id":"tommy-sissons-cautious-a-boat-adrift-2023-paperback","title":"Tommy Sissons: Cautious, A Boat Adrift [2023] paperback","description":"\"The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many\u003cbr\u003edarkened boats, heading their own way, in the night.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeeds, 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother visit Grandad Norman\u003cbr\u003efollowing the death of his callous second wife, Brenda. Norman has relapsed into alcoholism.\u003cbr\u003eBrenda's daughter and her husband have invaded the house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhilst writing a diary in attempt to revive his creativity, Fred finds himself cast adrift in his\u003cbr\u003efamily history, trying frantically to piece together the fragmented memories, half-truths,\u003cbr\u003esecrets and mythologies that lie therein. Disappearances. Post-war protection rackets. An\u003cbr\u003eIRA bomb plot. Romantic rivalries. The kidnap of a traitorous miner. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs spectres of the past\u003cbr\u003emeet with the looming presence of a post-truth future, Fred must navigate the illogical and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eunprovable stories of his grandfather and come to terms with the absence of irrecoverable\u003cbr\u003evoices in his quest for whatever truth and meaning remains.","brand":"Sissons, Tommy","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46930233360723,"sku":"9781914420658","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/sissons-tommy-tommy-sissons-cautious-a-boat-adrift-2023-paperback-9781914420658-51733057634643.jpg?v=1691248834","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/tommy-sissons-cautious-a-boat-adrift-2023-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}