{"product_id":"the-quiet-whispers-never-stop","title":"Quiet Whispers Never Stop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BUTLER LITERARY AWARD 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Powerful' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Darkly beautiful' \u003ci\u003eIrish Sunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Captivating' Jan Carson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dazzling' Danielle McLaughlin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Utterly absorbing' Kit de Waal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliantly observed' Elaine Feeney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A huge achievement' Niamh Boyce\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1982, Nuala Malin struggles to stay connected, to her husband, to motherhood, to the smallness of her life in the belly of a place that is built on hate and stagnation. Her daughter Sam and baby son PJ keep her tethered to this life she doesn't want. She finds unexpected refuge with a seventeen-year-old boy, but this relationship is only temporary, a sticking plaster on a festering wound. It cannot last and when her chance to leave Northern Ireland comes, Nuala takes it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1994, Sam Malin plans escape. She longs for a life outside her dysfunctional family, far away from the North and all its troubles, free from her quiet brooding father Patsy, who never talks about her mother, Nuala; a woman Sam barely knew, who abandoned them twelve years ago. She finds solace in music, drugs and her best friend Becca, but most of all in an illicit relationship with a jagged, magnetic older man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe is drawn to him, and he to her, in a way she can't yet comprehend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam is more like her mother than she knows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39697582555219,"sku":"","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529373578_81bb5b7c-d03c-4351-8e03-a88ac78e051c.jpg?v=1767427254","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-quiet-whispers-never-stop","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}