{"product_id":"this-boys-heart-scenes-from-an-irish-childhood-john-creedon","title":"This Boy's Heart: Scenes from an Irish Childhood [Hardback], John Creedon","description":"\u003cp\u003eA heartwarming memoir of an Irish childhood, filled with folklore, family, and lively city and country adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Creedon is a renowned storyteller. Following on from the sensational success of An Irish Folklore Treasury, here he seeks to capture the folklore of his own childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Boy’s Heart is set in a city-center household bursting with humanity, with a cast of a dozen children and another dozen adults, including beloved aunts, an American writer, an African doctor and a Scottish bookie. The streets outside are teeming with brewery horses, Christian Brothers, beat clubs, dance halls, a Turkish Delight shop - and a pub where a child could sit up on a high stool and smoke his cigarette in peace. Summers are spent farmed out to friends and family in the countryside, with hilarious tales of donkey derbies and cow chases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in wildly contrasting worlds - from urban exotica to spacious meadows, from the classroom of fifty boys to the open road - these stories of friendship, fun, family and folklore take you on a heart-warming journey into an Irish childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55285453521230,"sku":"9781804580486","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9781804580486.jpg?v=1769260962","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/this-boys-heart-scenes-from-an-irish-childhood-john-creedon","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}