{"product_id":"books-translation-of-the-bones-by-francesca-kay","title":"Translation of the Bones","description":"\u003cb\u003eFaith or delusion? Fantasy or fact? From the winner of the 2009 Orange New Writers Award comes a profound meditation on the nature of faith and a riveting story of religious passion gone tragically wrong in London.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen word gets out that Mary-Margaret O'Reilly, a somewhat slow-witted but apparently harmless young woman, may have been witness to a miracle, religious mania descends on the Church of the Sacred Heart by the River Thames in Battersea, London.\u003c\/b\u003e The consequences will be profound, not only for Mary-Margaret herself but for others too--Father Diamond, the parish priest, who is in the midst of his own lonely crisis of faith, and Stella Morrison, adrift in a loveless marriage and aching for her ten-year old son, away at boarding school. Meanwhile another mother, Alice Armitage, counts the days until her soldier son comes home from Afghanistan, and Mary-Margaret's mother, Fidelma, imprisoned in her tower block, stares out over London through her window for hour after hour with nothing but her thoughts for company. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is an exquisite novel about passion and isolation, about the nature of belief, about love and motherhood and a search for truth that goes tragically wrong. Mary-Margaret's desperate attempt to prove that Jesus loves her will change lives in a shocking way. Can anything that is good come out of it; can faith survive sacrifice and pain? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancesca Kay has crafted a novel that is by turns sly and profound. Her crystalline prose unlocks secrets about our capacity to believe and to love. She is a writer who surprises and delights with her language and her stories.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673448931601,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781451636826.jpg?v=1781525769","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-translation-of-the-bones-by-francesca-kay","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}