{"product_id":"9781787330917","title":"My Coney Island Baby","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: O'Callaghan, Billy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eNew York\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 15 January 2019 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e222 x 144 | 377g\u003cp\u003e*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020*On a bitterly cold winter's afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendez-vous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese precious, hidden hours are their only nourishment. But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink - with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other. And so, after half a lifetime spent in secret, certain long-avoided facts need to be faced, consequences examined, decisions made, and - perhaps - chances finally taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quiet, intense drama of late-flowering intimacy, My Coney Island Baby condenses, within the course of a single day, the histories, landscapes, tragedies and moments of wonder that constitute the lives of two people who, although born worlds apart, have been drawn together. O'Callaghan, a masterful prose stylist, has created a devastatingly powerful novel about two unforgettable characters and the choices they have made. This is a book full of sorrow, but also radiant with beauty, longing and breathless desire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O'Callaghan, Billy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50665934553272,"sku":"9781787330917","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781787330917.jpg?v=1734721707","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781787330917","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}