{"product_id":"on-blueberry-hill-faber-drama-1","title":"On Blueberry Hill (Faber Drama)","description":"Review\n\nSuperb . . . Few people can spin a world out of words in quite the way that Barry does. ― Irish Times\n\nFantastic.Outstanding. ― Arena, RTE\n\nA devastating yet fine work of art . . . Phenomenal. . [Barry] makes the language of \"the common man\" soar to almost unimaginable heights. ― Sunday Independent\n\nProduct Description\n\nNow we've lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fuck's sake, the chances of that.\n\nPJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life outside - the childhood excursions, a deadly brawl, past loves and summer dresses - slowly they uncover the tragic events that have lead them to their cell in Montjoy.\n\nA play that explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love, On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry (twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year) premiered in a Fishamble production at the Pavilion Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in October 2017.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nSebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741761286229,"sku":"9780571342921N","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/251b76cb-6faa-4020-9126-4ae2e76cf675.jpg?v=1702673343","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-blueberry-hill-faber-drama-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}