{"title":"Books by Niamh Mulvey","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781529079937","title":"Hearts and Bones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Vivid, memorable and beautifully crafted‘ - Sarah Moss, author of \u003ci\u003eSummerwater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A brilliant collection, from a remarkable talent‘ - Joseph O’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eConnor, author of \u003ci\u003eShadowplay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHearts and Bones\u003c\/i\u003e is Niamh Mulvey's collection of stories about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we survive it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst-time lovers make mistakes; brothers and sisters try to forgive one another; and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true. Quiet revolutions happen in living rooms, on river banks, in packed pubs and empty churches, and years later we wonder why we ever did the things we did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in\u003ci\u003e Hearts and Bones\u003c\/i\u003e look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that we’ve brought the old gods down. Witty, sharply observed and deeply moving, these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Highly accomplished, inventive' -\u003ci\u003e Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stunning' - Sinéad Gleeson, author \u003ci\u003eConstellations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Poignant, unsparingly honest' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43172954702002,"sku":"9781529079937","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529079937.jpg?v=1786022446"},{"product_id":"9781529079852","title":"The Amendments","description":"\u003cp\u003eTender and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eThe Amendments\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of three Irish women over four decades, a love story, and a family drama that will break your heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An extraordinary achievement. \u003ci\u003eThe Amendments\u003c\/i\u003e is about a lot of things – love, family, girlhood, growing up, sex, legacy, compassion – all blended into a moving plot’ – Jessie Burton, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Miniaturist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, parenthood is the start of a new life. For Nell, it’s the reason the two of them are sitting in a therapist’s office. Because she can’t go into this without facing the painful truth: that she has been a mother before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Dolores, Nell’s mother, the news also brings a reckoning: with the way her daughter’s life unfolded fifteen years ago, with its inextricable ties to her own past, and with the tragedy that neither of them have spoken about since . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Engrossing and moving' – Emma Donoghue, author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It cuts to the heart of what it means to be human’ – Elizabeth Macneal, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Doll Factory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘As significant as it is enjoyable’ – Emma Stonex, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lamplighters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderfully compelling' – Joseph O'Connor, author of \u003ci\u003eStar of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Ireland against the backdrop of a series of abortion referendums, \u003ci\u003eThe Amendments \u003c\/i\u003eis the debut novel from Niamh Mulvey, author of \u003ci\u003eHearts and Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, and was selected by the \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIrish Journal \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e VIP \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the most anticipated novels of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685894365557,"sku":"9781529079876","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43605706703026,"sku":"9781529079852","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529079876.jpg?v=1792599124"},{"product_id":"mother-made-me","title":"Mother Made Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt was almost midday on the second day of our trip by the time I started feeling truly murderous towards Mother.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I read compulsively. \u003ci\u003eMother Made Me\u003c\/i\u003e is superbly paced . . . its characters magnetic' - Sarah Moss, author of \u003ci\u003eRipeness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor crime writer Pat, her mother’s cruelty has long cast a shadow over her life. On a trip to Paris, she’s reaching breaking point, afraid of what she might do. Then, suddenly, Mother is found dead in their hotel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Pat is finally free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon afterwards, Graham, Pat’s devoted former lover, returns to her side, and together they find a quiet happiness. But is it too good to be true? And what of the mysterious Cynthia, who appears out of the blue claiming to be Pat’s half-sister? Desperate to make sense of the shifting ground beneath her, Pat revisits the past. 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