{"product_id":"9781529373592-the-quiet-whispers-never-stop","title":"The Quiet Whispers Never Stop","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s, \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Whispers Never Stop\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of love, obsession and escape, an uncompromising, lyrical tour-de-force that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in Irish fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eIRISH EXAMINER \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BUTLER LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE KATE O'BRIEN AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Touching and darkly beautiful' \u003ci\u003eIrish Sunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Powerful, uncompromising' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Utterly absorbing, a novel that keeps you guessing right to the end' Kit de Waal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1982. Northern Ireland. Nuala Malin is tied to a life she doesn't want by her daughter Sam and baby son PJ. An affair with a seventeen-year-old boy reminds her of a future she hasn't given up on, but it can't last, and when her chance to leave comes, she takes it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1994. If Sam Malin has a god then it is Kurt Cobain. Music is the only thing that brings her peace. She wants a life away from the North and its troubles, away from her da who can't talk about the past but seems stuck there, waiting for Sam's mother to return. A mother Sam barely knew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEscape seems out of reach until Sam meets a jagged, magnetic older man, drawn to him in a way she can't yet comprehend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe falls for him, unable to say no.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam is more like her mother than she knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40736994000993,"sku":"9781529373592","price":8.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28365839.jpg?v=1722535821","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529373592-the-quiet-whispers-never-stop","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}