{"product_id":"cold-boys-wood-by-carol-birch","title":"Cold Boy's Wood by Carol Birch","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\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781838939427\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43015448723519,"sku":null,"price":24.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/20379093482842.jpg?v=1773740864","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/cold-boys-wood-by-carol-birch","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}