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    "description": "Sprawling yet intimate\u2019 Guardian\n\u2018Huge of heart and soaring of soul\u2019 CLAIRE KILROY\n\u2018A profound love story\u2026Like Barbara Kingsolver, Hickey captures the pulse of the living moment\u2019 COLUM McCANN\n\u2018A London novel that captures the living moment of the city across decades\u2019 PAUL LYNCH\n\n1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away.\n\nOver the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another\u2019s sight, always on one another\u2019s mind, yet rarely together.\n\nForty years on, Milly is clinging onto the only home she\u2019s ever really known while Pip, haunted by T.S. Eliot\u2019s The Waste Land, traipses the streets of London and wrestles with the life of the recovering alcoholic. And between them, perhaps uncrossable, lies the unspoken span of their lives.\n\nDark and brave, this epic novel offers a rich and moving portrait of an ever-changing city, and a profound inquiry into character, loneliness and the nature of love.",
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