{"product_id":"boy-1","title":"Boy 2","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.csCB8DF0B{10.5pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:italic;Arial;} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs31346E4{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.6;text-indent:0pt} .cs770278B{10.5pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:normal;Arial;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eThe Boy is a powerful novel of wasted talent, loss, greed and revenge - but also of discovered genius and life-affirming friendship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eBy turns terrifying, taut, humane and tender it tells the origin story of Ireland's organised-crime epidemic with a skill and grace which belies a debut novel, and is the calling-card of a ringing new voice in Irish fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eWhen the Guards knock on the door The Boy already knows his mother is dead. His father flees to the pub, leaving him to wait alone. Soon his brother Fallon, half-protector and half-outlaw, draws him into a world where grief and crime are rarely separated. At the same time, a wealthy landowner harbours grotesque secrets in the countryside - a hidden \"family\" of abducted boys, a nightmare lurking beneath respectability.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eAs The Boy moves through these fractured worlds - his father's guilt, his uncle's paramilitary past, his brother's violent death - he becomes both witness and inheritor of a brutal legacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eThink of a space where the layered complexity of Tana French meets the whip-smart dialogue and brutal beauty of Colin Barrett and the sharp tenderness and humour of Graeme Armstrong's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csCB8DF0B\"\u003eThe Young Team\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e- and you're somewhere near where this novel will take you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csCB8DF0B\"\u003eThe Boy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a dark, lyrical crime debut. It is unflinching, propulsive, and unforgettable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dear Village","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67793885397268,"sku":"9781835015810","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6460\/0596\/files\/9781835015810_1.jpg?v=1792992979","url":"https:\/\/dearvillage.com.au\/products\/boy-1","provider":"Dear Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}