{"product_id":"9781843519775","title":"The Pilgrimage - John Broderick","description":"\u003cp\u003eBanned on its 1961 release and long overlooked, The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire, secrecy and small-town conformity. John Broderick's fearless debut follows Julia Glynn, a respectable wife in an Irish midlands town whose carefully arranged life begins to fracture after a series of anonymous letters expose the frailty of the world she inhabits. As Julia, her ailing husband, their watchful manservant and an ambitious young doctor prepare for a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the novel plunges into the hypocrisies, longings and unspoken tensions that shape a society crackling with self-awareness and concealed passions. �Darkly comic, unsettling and steeped in the atmosphere of 1950s Ireland, The Pilgrimage offers a daring exploration of sexuality, power and self-deception. Tt stands as a vivid, transgressive classic that feels as provocative, and as essential, as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Broderick","offers":[{"title":"230 pages \/ 07\/05\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57110735257975,"sku":"9781843519775","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781843519775.jpg?v=1779386427","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781843519775","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}