{"product_id":"we-were-young-1","title":"We Were Young","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eDiana Evans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing heady prose, Campbell's style is unique' \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn immensely enjoyable novel, and a great validation of Campbell's uncanny emotional insight' Megan Nolan, \u003ci\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself 'the leftover man'.\u003cbr\u003eThrough talent and charm, he has escaped small town life and a haunted family. But now his peers are all getting divorced, dying, or buying trampolines in the suburbs. Cormac is dating former students, staying out all night and receiving boilerplate rejection emails for his work, propped up by a constellation of the women and ex-lovers in his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the last weeks of the year, Cormac meets Caroline, an ambitious young dancer, and embarks on a miniature odyssey of intimacy. Simultaneously, he must take responsibility for his married brother, whose mid-life crisis forces them both to reckon with a death in the family that hangs over those left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Dublin, a city built on burial pits, \u003ci\u003eWe Were Young \u003c\/i\u003eis a dazzlingly clever, deeply enjoyable novel from a Sunday Times Short Story Award-Winning author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In 30 years from now will some literary critic be asking what is meant by \"Campbellesque\"? That would not surprise me in the slightest' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46730124591448,"sku":"9781474611725","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/products\/9781474611725_c08e8916-3f38-4c71-b28c-1f033c74b174.jpg?v=1684755629","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/we-were-young-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}