{"product_id":"9781800173835","title":"Egg\/Shell by Victoria Kennefick","description":"The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024A Telegraph Book of the Year 2024Winner of the Farmgate Caf? National Poetry Award 2025`It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away \/ so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen \/ my life?' (`Child of Lir')The lives depicted by Victoria Kennefick alter, shatter and recombine in stunning monologues, innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics: her second book Egg\/Shell is a diptych, a double album, which explores early motherhood and miscarriage, and the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. Acclaimed as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years, Kennefick, in the follow-up to her best-selling Eat or We Both Starve, breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity, formal ingenuity and wit.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43717762220210,"sku":"9781800173835","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781800173835.jpg?v=1708768989","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781800173835","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}