{"product_id":"strange-flowers-donal-ryan-9781784163044","title":"Strange Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary story of a family devastated by a sudden disappearance and transformed by a miraculous return from the award-winning author loved by David Nicholls, Kamila Shamsie and Sebastian Barry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020\n\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the International Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e_________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written' INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' KATHLEEN MACMAHON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Exquisite . . . Beautiful' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of WHEN ALL IS SAID\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' R N N HESSION, author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donal Ryan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48834495611123,"sku":"9781784163044","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781784163044.jpg?v=1776196802","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/strange-flowers-donal-ryan-9781784163044","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}