{"product_id":"fanatic-heart-9780571387953","title":"Fanatic Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGod save all here.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummer, 1847. People are getting used to the corpses lying by the road and along the ditches. For John Mitchel  lawyer, journalist, activist, politician  the word famine' will forever conjure the hollowed faces of Ireland's dead, the liquid Irish of the past now mute on their tongues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePropelled by disgust at the injustice, Mitchel will do all he can to fight for the destitute, the starved, the forgotten. His odyssey will take him all the way to America  that land of promise  but it will draw him into a terrible paradox. He is trying to save lives  in doing so, will he betray the very people he is trying to protect?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFanatic Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, Booker Prize winner Thomas Keneally takes on one of the most controversial figures of the fight for Irish independence to wrestle with the conflicts at the centre of a complicated legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''One of the world's greatest writers.'' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''He writes with tenderness and patho\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403141521751,"sku":"9780571387953","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fanatic-heart-9780571387953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}