{"product_id":"9781843518334","title":"Headwreck - Emer Martin","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmer Martin is an original, radical and vital voice in Irish writing.ï¿½Her first novel, Breakfast in Babylon (1996), won Book of theï¿½Year 1996 at the Listowel Writers' Week. Martin was awarded theï¿½Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in 1999. Her most recent,ï¿½critically acclaimed, novel, The Cruelty Men (Lilliput 2017), wasï¿½shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award 2019 andï¿½challenges a history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and theï¿½mistreatment of women in mid twentieth-century Ireland. Headwreckï¿½by Emer Martinï¿½is both a stand-alone workï¿½and continuation of the fictionalized epic intergenerational familyï¿½saga, from 1970 to the present day. It follows the story of theï¿½O'Conaills, an Irish-speaking family who had moved from Kerry toï¿½the Meath Gaeltacht, and the disasters that ensue for their childrenï¿½in Irish institutions. Told from Mary O'Conaill's perspective, theï¿½voice in the novel is that of a natural storyteller with a finely tunedï¿½ear for language and symbolism, lending shape to the historicalï¿½traumas endured by its characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emer Martin","offers":[{"title":"368 pages \/ 01\/04\/2023 \/ Sagas","offer_id":56971171660151,"sku":"9781843518334","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781843518334_71233a26-d21a-41ed-ba32-4cbc7f6838d9.jpg?v=1779386418","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781843518334","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}