{"product_id":"the-hill-road-1","title":"Patrick O'Keeffe: The Hill Road [2005] hardback","description":"The \"Hill Road\" marks the debut of an original and exciting new voice in Irish Fiction. Writing in the tradition of William Trevor and John McGahern, Patrick O'Keeffe has created a vision of rural Ireland in four unforgettable novellas, linked by setting and circumstance, that is clear-eyed, evocative, humorous and true. The townland of Kilkelly is at risk of being trapped for ever in an earlier version of itself, a time when shell-shocked soldiers returned from the trenches, and convent orphans could be billeted as servants with poor farmers; a time when a glamorous Irish American finds her liberated ways mean flirting is flirting with death, and a chance meeting on a train means the postman's widow must face the past she has always sidestepped. Patrick O'Keeffe's Ireland is a precarious world where time and landscape are forceful characters, but it is also a place of natural beauty, of laughter, of family closeness, a place where stories can change lives.","brand":"O'keeffe, Patrick","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47985864016211,"sku":"XG80747571582","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/o-keeffe-patrick-the-hill-road-xg80747571582-55407221309779.jpg?v=1726567147","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-hill-road-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}