{"product_id":"9781843519775","title":"The Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBanned on its 1961 release and long overlooked, \u003cem\u003eThe Pilgrimage\u003c\/em\u003e returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire, secrecy and small‑town conformity. John Broderick's fearless debut follows Julia Glynn, a respectable wife in an Irish midlands town whose carefully arranged life begins to fracture after a series of anonymous letters expose the frailty of the world she inhabits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs Julia, her ailing husband, their watchful manservant and an ambitious young doctor prepare for a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the novel plunges into the hypocrisies, longings and unspoken tensions that shape a society crackling with self-awareness and concealed passions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDarkly comic, unsettling and steeped in the atmosphere of 1950s Ireland, \u003cem\u003eThe Pilgrimage\u003c\/em\u003e offers a daring exploration of sexuality, power and self‑deception. Tt stands as a vivid, transgressive classic that feels as provocative, and as essential, as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"The Lilliput Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57247619776885,"sku":"9781843519775","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781843519775.jpg?v=1780491729","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781843519775","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}