{"product_id":"intimacies-paperback","title":"Intimacies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eleven perfect stories\" \u003ci\u003e(Irish Independent) \u003c\/i\u003ethat chart the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world, including the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Precise and beautifully controlled fictions but with strange, wild energies pulsing along just beneath the surface. A tremendous collection.\"\u003ci\u003e --\u003c\/i\u003eKevin Barry, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heart in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFrom a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother's brush with mortality; from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from \"home\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking in, too, the lives of other women who could be guiding lights - from Monica Lewinsky to Caroline Norton to Sinéad O'Connor - \u003ci\u003eIntimacies \u003c\/i\u003eoffers keenly felt and subtly revealing insights into the heartbreak and hope of young motherhood and modern life.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101955231967,"sku":"9780571353750","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3yWwiSOB1E9780571353750.webp?v=1781075960","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/intimacies-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}