{"product_id":"benefactors-the-1","title":"Benefactors, The","description":"''The style of Woolf but the heart of Dickens . . . impressive''\u003cbr\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A blistering debut . . . vital reading''\u003cbr\u003eSpectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A powerful, moving, compelling, utterly enthralling debut''\u003cbr\u003eJon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''So fresh, so sharp, so wry, so alive''\u003cbr\u003eLucy Caldwell, author of These Days\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I miss it already . . . What a beautiful, hilarious blast of brilliance''\u003cbr\u003eDonal Ryan, author of Heart, Be at Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A cast of characters so vividly drawn it feels like you''ve known them all your life''\u003cbr\u003eColin Walsh, author of Kala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''There''s not a sentence I don''t believe, or a character I don''t feel something for . . . what a joy it is to read''\u003cbr\u003eMichael Magee, author of Close to Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the prize-winning author of Dance Move and Sweet Home, this is an astounding novel about intimate histories, class and money - and what being a parent means.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh: three very different women from Belfast, but all mothers to eighteen-year-old boys.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGorgeous Frankie, now married to a wealthy, older man, grew up in care. Miriam has recently lost her beloved husband Kahlil in ambiguous circumstances. Bronagh, the CEO of a children''s services charity, loves celebrity and prestige. When their sons are accused of sexually assaulting a friend, Misty Johnston, they''ll come together to protect their children, leveraging all the powers they possess. But on her side, Misty has the formidable matriarch, Nan D, and her father, taxi-driver Boogie: an alliance not so easily dismissed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrutal, tender and rigorously intelligent, The Benefactors is a daring, multi-voice presentation of modern-day Northern Ireland. It is also very funny.","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51519728943451,"sku":"9781399741675","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/benefactors-the-1","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}