{"product_id":"cold-boys-wood","title":"Cold Boys Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, this is a brilliant and timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind from Booker-shortlisted author Carol Birch. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDid you hear? Big landslip over by Ercol. Last night. The road into Gully''s closed off. They found a body. Got police tape. All that stuff. They only do that for murder, don''t they? Murder! \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA body has been uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of murder, but Dan – sometime mechanic, constant drunk – is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories. Watching him from the dark is Lorna, a lost soul living in the woods, haunted by ghosts and a vision from her childhood: a cold boy standing alone in Gallinger''s field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, \u003ci\u003eCold Boy''s Wood\u003c\/i\u003e is an arresting, timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A haunting murder mystery, \u003ci\u003eCold Boy''s Wood\u003c\/i\u003e is also a double portrait of damaged souls'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Crime Club\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Fusing the supernatural with the psychological, Birch''s story is, at its heart, a human one'' \u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Her prose has an irresistible vigour... Her words sing on the page'' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315854680446,"sku":"NW9781838939427","price":11.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781838939427.jpg?v=1778507327","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/cold-boys-wood","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}