{"product_id":"be-near-me","title":"Be Near Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\"Always trust a stranger,\" said David’s mother when he returned from Rome. \"It’s the people you know who let you down.\" 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew O'Hagan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46981622333609,"sku":"9780571216048","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/ohagan.jpg?v=1775866298","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/be-near-me","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}