{"product_id":"we-play-here","title":"We Play Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Play Here\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence during the Troubles.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Written from the perspectives of four female friends in the months between finishing primary school and starting high school, the girls inhabit an eerie, elemental landscape of normalised violence, poverty and neglect. This is a lyrical and graceful evocation of working-class girlhood that rings of Elena Ferrante's studies of female friendships in the Neapolitan novels, Didier Eribon's \u003cem\u003eReturning to Reims\u003c\/em\u003e, and Annie Ernaux's \u003cem\u003eThe Years\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is a radical approach to girlhood and girl-friendships, the kind of skewered space before an imposition of gender, or before the trappings of gender make themselves strongly known. Innocence is tinged here with a kind of hidden menace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dawn Watson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44085587935489,"sku":"9781915051066","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2023-10-13T131657.617.png?v=1697199428","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/we-play-here","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}