{"product_id":"the-outside-boy-9781472272836","title":"The Outside Boy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Cummins, Jeanine\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eIreland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 11 June 2020 by Headline Publishing Group (Tinder Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 196 x 34 | 266g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A full-throated song of praise. I loved it' Sherman AlexieIreland, 1959.  Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons.  Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well: his mother's death in childbirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes.  His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Christy struggles with his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs.  But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret, changes his life for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cummins, Jeanine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55910412026234,"sku":"9781472272836","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781472272836.jpg?v=1758044797","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/pl\/products\/the-outside-boy-9781472272836","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}