{"product_id":"the-benefactors-the-moving-and-utterly-enthralling-debut-novel-about-class-power-and-what-being-a-parent-means","title":"The Benefactors: The moving and utterly enthralling debut novel about class, power and what being a parent means.","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The style of Woolf but the heart of Dickens . . . impressive'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A powerful, moving, compelling, utterly enthralling debut'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'So fresh, so sharp, so wry, so alive'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy Caldwell, author of These Days\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I miss it already . . . What a beautiful, hilarious blast of brilliance'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonal Ryan, author of Heart, Be at Peace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A cast of characters so vividly drawn it feels like you've known them all your life'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColin Walsh, author of Kala\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There's not a sentence I don't believe, or a character I don't feel something for . . . what a joy it is to read'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Magee, author of Close to Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the prize-winning author of Dance Move and Sweet Home, this is an astounding novel about intimate histories, class and money - and what being a parent means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh: three very different women from Belfast, but all mothers to eighteen-year-old boys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGorgeous Frankie, now married to a wealthy, older man, grew up in care. Miriam has recently lost her beloved husband Kahlil in ambiguous circumstances. Bronagh, the CEO of a children's services charity, loves celebrity and prestige. When their sons are accused of sexually assaulting a friend, Misty Johnston, they'll come together to protect their children, leveraging all the powers they possess. But on her side, Misty has the formidable matriarch, Nan D, and her father, taxi-driver Boogie: an alliance not so easily dismissed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrutal, tender and rigorously intelligent, The Benefactors is a daring, multi-voice presentation of modern-day Northern Ireland. It is also very funny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DISTRIBUTION SERVICES","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40956616441920,"sku":"9781399741675","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/0876\/8576\/files\/9781399741675.jpg?v=1775095907","url":"https:\/\/thepageandprose.co.nz\/products\/the-benefactors-the-moving-and-utterly-enthralling-debut-novel-about-class-power-and-what-being-a-parent-means","provider":"The Page and Prose Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}