{"product_id":"9781529079852-amendments","title":"The Amendments","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe instant Irish bestseller about one family through the generations\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping family saga that tells the story of three Irish women and their struggles to find love, meaning and freedom against a backdrop of enormous social and cultural change as Ireland marks time with a series of abortion referendums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary. I loved it' - Jessie Burton, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Miniaturist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Engrossing and moving . gives voice to so much that's unspoken about Ireland' - Emma Donoghue, author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderfully compelling . haunting' - Joseph O'Connor, author of \u003ci\u003eStar of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDelving into the lives of three generations of women, \u003ci\u003eThe Amendments \u003c\/i\u003eby Niamh Mulvey is an extraordinary novel about love and freedom, belonging and rebellion – and about how our past is a vital presence which sits alongside us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, it’s 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 dealing with the truth: that she has been a mother before, and now she can hardly bring herself to speak to her own mother, let alone return home to Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNell is running out of places to hide from her past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut to Ireland and the past is where she must go, and that is where \u003ci\u003eThe Amendments\u003c\/i\u003e takes us: to the heat of Nell’s teenage years in the early 2000s, as Ireland was unpicking itself from its faith and embracing the hedonism of the Celtic Tiger. To 1983, when Nell’s mother Dolores was grappling with the tensions of the women’s rights movement. And then to the farms and suburbs and towns that made and unmade the lives at the centre of this story, bound together by the terrible secret that Nell still cannot face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected 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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41602659909729,"sku":"9781529079852","price":14.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27253097.jpg?v=1721637700","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529079852-amendments","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}