{"product_id":"9781789541816","title":"The Jewel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this moving and unusual novel is a strange painting by a woman who committed suicide rather than live with neglect and pain. Her final glowingly beautiful work was painted with a technique more usual for posters and banners, and not designed to last. She intended it as her shroud. It hangs in a Dublin gallery, and it is desired by a collector who is willing to pay to have it stolen. The thief is a disillusioned, corrupted London artist coping with tragic loss. The curator of the painting is a lonely gallerist whose life centres on her work. And the man charged with recovering the stolen painting is a gay man trapped in an abusive relationship. The lives of these three damaged people, each evokedwith a calm, moving sympathy reminiscent of Michael Cunningham or David Park, come together around the hauntingly strange Victorian painting. Set in London, Dublin, Northern Ireland and various European capitals, The Jewel is a major new novel from an Irish writer coming into his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Neil+Hegarty\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eNeil Hegarty\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Neil Hegarty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377291116707,"sku":"9781789541816","price":470.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781789541816_5bef07f3-7d39-4266-826f-f177cfeb4763.jpg?v=1776597369","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781789541816","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}