{"product_id":"the-small-hours-9781844088263","title":"The Small Hours","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Mansfield, brave, wry and handsome, is determined to triumph no matter what. With a decade of therapy under her belt and a new large inheritance, it seems there is nothing she cannot achieve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo she decides to open the school of her dreams. To her precious little girls, rich in everything but care, she vows to provide the happiest childhoods in the world. For everyone knows that early years passed in delightful ways can set you up for life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut can this ambitious new departure spill some retrospective sweetness onto Harriet's own harsh beginnings, or better still cancel them out altogether? Will the family she's estranged from ever grant her the recognition she craves?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with deep psychological insight and coal-black humour \u003ci\u003eThe Small Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning meditation on love, self-love and forgiveness, and their shadowy opposites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Small Hours\u003c\/i\u003e excites with refined delights . . . Boyt's economical prose remains elegantly polished, her descriptions of the subtleties of psychotherapy spine-tingling . . . A meaty yet accessible novel possessing great psychological rigour -- Lucy Beresford * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eBoyt is a compassionate chronicler of the human heart . . . The point of this novel is not whether your dreams succeed or fail, but whether you're still willing to risk having dreams at all. In Harriet Mansfield, Boyt has drawn a character whose moral and emotional courage is both convincing and heartbreaking -- Rebecca Abrams * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Small Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is an absolute gem of a novel: exquisite, diamond-bright and lacerating to the hardest of hearts -- Amanda Craig * Literary Review *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742093029719,"sku":"9781844088263","price":9.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-small-hours-9781844088263","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}