{"product_id":"marion-todd-dead-mans-shoes-copy","title":"Michael Curtin - The cove shivering club","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrilliantly and warmly done… a major discovery.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKaleidoscope, BBC Radio Four \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Michael Curtin is one of Ireland’s national treasures; a superb comic novelist who deserves to be far better known… Curtin’s hilarity is shot through with impeccably judged moments of poignancy, even tragedy.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSunday Express \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Sparkling and hilarious, full of characters and lines that lovers of Michael Curtin expect… very funny and very, very human.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoddy Doyle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Real comic writing, with not a dull moment.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTimes Educational Supplement \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Witty gem.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScotland on Sunday \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Brilliant comic novel.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBelfast Telegraph \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt all began on Good Friday 1955, when aged ten, Junior Nash and Dunstan Tucker swam each way across the bay defying the freshness of the Atlantic in spring and thereby became full members of The Cove Shivering Club. The rules were simple: you don't piss in the water and you don't bring a woman. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYears later the club members reconvene to decide how to deal with a rule-breaking woman, and indeed with modernity in general. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith its maze of comic twists and turns, The Cove Shivering Club brilliantly demonstrates Michael Curtin's wicked sense of the humorous absurd and his deeply affectionate understanding of the most human of moral frailties.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boycey’s bookish bundles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54207322587478,"sku":null,"price":1.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/8265\/4294\/files\/IMG_0018.heic?v=1781578224","url":"https:\/\/www.boyceysbookishbundles.co.uk\/products\/marion-todd-dead-mans-shoes-copy","provider":"Boycey’s bookish bundles","version":"1.0","type":"link"}