{"product_id":"intimacies","title":"Intimacies","description":"\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":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53537265484142,"sku":"9780571353750","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_9ce2f5de-8c10-4a3b-9113-40a2be2c259b.jpg?v=1774453352","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/intimacies","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}