{"product_id":"innocent-of-falkland-road-carlo-gebler","title":"Innocent of Falkland Road, Carlo Gébler","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLondon, Summer, 1964. The Beatles have just released A Hard Days Night and the swinging sixties are fast approaching. Ralph, twelve years old, waves his mother goodbye as she disappears to the U.S. to work for a year, leaving him in the care of Doreen, an Irish housekeeper, and her husband Tom, a labourer. It is never easy being stuck inside the pill-box of the skull and looking out, particularly when the world is in flux, when it is peopled by chancers and crooks, swingers and adulterers, unreliable friends and – very occasionally – even good people, and when the grown-ups around you play strange games that involve fighting as much as loving each other. Yet Ralph is nothing if not curious, as well as cunning if necessary: he hangs on and gradually, slowly, begins to understand the world as it really is, an experience that frightens, enlightens and surprises him. A masterful novel by one of Ireland’s finest writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Island Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61676519653710,"sku":"9781848406308","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9781848406308.jpg?v=1794654703","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/innocent-of-falkland-road-carlo-gebler","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}