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A rare treat’ Dermot Bolger, Sunday Independent, Dublin   `Quietly compassionate . . . moving, sensuous . . . A wise, tender novel’ Times Literary Supplement   `A beautiful, evocative tale of love tested . . . From its mesmerizing opening chapters in Florence, through the shocking climax to the close, the complicated inter-family relationships threaded with echoes of the past are woven with exquisite skill’ Irish Examiner","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49546307698961,"sku":"GOR004440716","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50106473021713,"sku":"GOR013857870","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50556586950929,"sku":"GOR004113782","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330483021.jpg?v=1750844874"},{"product_id":"water-star-book-philip-casey-9780330371919","title":"The Water Star","description":"`Set in a post-war London still recovering from the Blitz, the novel follows the overlapping lives of five characters who inhabit the ruins of North London . . . Casey escorts his reader through the labyrinths of his character’s minds, unpicking the jumbled mosaic of mourning, desire and fear. The Water Star is a bitter-sweet testimony to the never-ending struggle between exile and assimilation’ John Tague,  Times Literary Supplement   `There is something at once tough and endearing in Casey’s predominant concerns with making his creations seem like real people, with delineating intimate human relationships – with being, essentially, emotive and compassionate’ John Kenny, Irish Times   `Casey is a poet and a playwright; he has a poet’s delicate ear and a playwright’s eye for direction . . . The Water Star is a graceful, gentle novel that does not shy from the truth. 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After a brief encounter on the Ha’penny Bridge over the Liffey, Tess and Mungo contrive to make their paths cross again. ‘Two spoofers,’ Tess thinks to herself. ‘It might even be fun.’ The relationship that develops extends the horizons of their lives on the dole, struggling with children and marriage, filled with sexual longing, and hungry for purpose. As life and fantasy interweave between Dublin, Wexford, Berlin and Barcelona, Tess and Mungo consummate their love through tales which are erotic, exotic and often guilt-ridden, confronting truths about themselves, and restoring the fabric of a torn past. This novel about love and parenthood, desire and frailty, describes ordinary lives and emotions in an extraordinary way.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642181034257,"sku":"GOR010839865","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50577493360913,"sku":"GOR002125754","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50599623065873,"sku":"GOR002062206","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1874675309.jpg?v=1751027178"},{"product_id":"water-star-book-philip-casey-9780330371902","title":"The Water Star","description":"This novel is about families and love in the English and Irish communities in 1950s London.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642743464209,"sku":"GOR001895156","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330371908.jpg?v=1751390367"},{"product_id":"fabulists-book-philip-casey-9780993042508","title":"The Fabulists","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51100613345553,"sku":"NIN9780993042508","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0993042503.jpg?v=1750852420"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-philip-casey.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}