{"product_id":"the-misremembered-man","title":"The Misremembered Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eJamie McCloones early years in a grim  cruel orphanage have left him wary of people and anxious of change. Now in his early forties  he has no dreams of changing his lonely life as a bachelor farmer until his kind-hearted neighbours  Patrick and Rose  decide he is in need of a wife. Lydia couldnt be more different to Jamie. Rectors daughter and proper schoolteacher  she still lives at home  looking after her aged and demanding mother. She dreams constantly of changing her spinsterly fate  but has no idea how to - until a friend suggests she puts an ad in the Lonely Hearts column of the Mid-Ulster Vindicator. The result is a meeting of absolute opposites: farmer Jamie with his cavalier attitude to personal hygiene and his ignorance of the fairer sex  and Lydia Devine  for whom everything must be folded neatly and laid in its proper place - including her ideal man. The Misremembered Man is a beautifully rendered portrait of life in rural Ireland which charms and delights with its authentic characters and gentle humor. But the tears it brings to our eyes are not only tears of laughter. This vivid portrayal of the universal search for love brings with it a darker tale  heartbreaking in its poignancy  for Jamies search for love is truly a search for innocence and the childhood that was stolen from him. In this first novel  McKenna lays bare a sinister period of Irelands history; one which many would prefer to leave hidden and safe from investigative eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966136709173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1592642195","price":59.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781592642199.jpg?v=1770555051","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-misremembered-man","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}