{"product_id":"books-be-near-me-by-andrew-o-hagan","title":"Be Near Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Always trust a stranger,\" said David's mother when he returned from Rome. \"It's the people you know who let you down.\"\u003c\/p\u003e Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness--his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present. In this masterfully written novel, Andrew O'Hagan explores the emotional and moral contradictions of religious life in a faithless age.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674942202129,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780156033961.jpg?v=1781536749","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-be-near-me-by-andrew-o-hagan","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}