{"product_id":"the-good-people","title":"The Good People","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the year 1825, in a remote valley lying between the mountains of south0west Ireland, near the Flesk river\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eof Killarney, three women are brought together by strange and troubling events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNóra Leahy has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eher four-year-old grandson, Micheál. The boy cannot walk, or speak, and Nora, mistrustful of the tongues of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003egossips, has kept the child hidden from those who might see in his deformity evidence of otherworldly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003einterference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eUnable to care for the child alone, Nóra hires a fourteen-year-old servant girl, Mary, who soon hears the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ewhispers in the valley about the blasted creature causing grief to fall upon the widow's house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAlone, hedged in by rumour, Mary and her mistress seek out the only person in the valley who might be\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eable to help Micheál. For although her neighbours are wary of her, it is said that old Nance Roche has the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eknowledge. That she consorts with Them, the Good People. And that only she can return those whom they\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ehave taken . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘The Good People takes us straight to a place utterly unexpected and believable, where amidst the earnest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003emayhem people impose on each other, there is no patronising quaintness, but a compelling sense of the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003einevitability of solemn horrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWinner of the Booker Prize and Miles Franklin Literary Award –\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52000295747858,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/TheGoodPeople.jpg?v=1770193409","url":"https:\/\/www.goode-books.com\/products\/the-good-people","provider":"Good E-Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}