{"product_id":"sweet-home","title":"Sweet Home","description":"Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 'Wendy Erskine's first collection, Sweet Home . . . is every bit as good as her early stories in the always astute Stinging Fly magazine promised.' Jon McGregor, New Statesman\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Set in the author's native Belfast, the ten stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the surface of everyday lives. A lonely woman is fascinated by her niqab-wearing\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e neighbours; a middle-aged teacher becomes obsessed with a young Gaelic football player; and an employer covers for his two employees caught having sex in a public toilet.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Wendy Erskine offers perfectly formed, brilliantly observed portraits of people trying to carve out a life for themselves, all the while being buffeted by the loss, grief and regret that come their way. Warm, compassionate and funny, Sweet Home captures life in contemporary East Belfast, in all of its forms.","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42353258037419,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/products\/1_4f9f71ec-c691-476a-95d9-a7f9af09bc65.jpg?v=1669996668","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/sweet-home","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}