{"product_id":"sweet-home-wendy-erskine-9781529017069","title":"Sweet Home","description":"\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eA reclusive cult-rock icon ends his days in the street where he was born; a lonely woman is fascinated by her niqab-wearing neighbours; a husband and wife become enmeshed in the lives of the young couple they pay to do their cleaning and gardening. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet in contemporary East Belfast, these eleven acutely observed short stories come charged with regret and sorrow, desire and yearning. With clear-eyed compassion and wry humour, Wendy Erskine deftly lays bare her characters' struggle to maintain control in an often cruel world, where tragic events cast long shadows. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSweet Home heralds the arrival of a wonderfully compelling and truly distinctive voice from Northern Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wendy Erskine","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43175712719091,"sku":"9781529017069","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781529017069.jpg?v=1662077103","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/sweet-home-wendy-erskine-9781529017069","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}