{"product_id":"hold-back-the-night-by-jessica-moor-1","title":"Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor","description":"\u003cp class=\"container container--50 u-separator-bottom\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy and the heart-breaking betrayal of the AIDS crisis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarch 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1959. Annie and Rita are student nurses at Fairlie Hall mental hospital. Working long, gruelling hours, they soon learn that the only way to appease their terrifying matron is to follow the rules unthinkingly. But what is happening in the hospital's hidden side wards? And at what point does following the rules turn into complicity - and betrayal?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1983. Annie is reeling from the loss of her husband and struggling to face raising her daughter alone. Following a chance encounter, she offers a sick young man a bed for the night, a good deed that soon leads to another. Before long, she finds herself entering a new life of service - her home a haven for those who are cruelly shunned. But can we ever really atone?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe powerful and captivating new novel from the celebrated author of KEEPER and YOUNG WOMEN, HOLD BACK THE NIGHT is Jessica Moor's most powerful and commercial book to date. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA darkly compelling character-led novel, drawing on themes of complicity and betrayal, it is bursting with talking points and absolutely perfect for reading groups.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for HOLD BACK THE NIGHT and Jessica Moor:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Absolutely incredible. Intricate, heart-breaking, with perfect prose and characterisation. This is an author stepping into her power and it is a privilege to behold'\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKate Sawyer\u003c\/span\u003e, Costa shortlisted author of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Stranding and This Family\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Beautifully written and authentic, \u003c\/span\u003ethis novel shines an unflinching light on the darkest episodes of recent medical history. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHold Back The Night\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e will get under your skin and lodge itself in your heart'\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eErin Kelly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Powerful, at times gut-wrenching' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePeter Tatchell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJessica Moor is a new young writer I believe in'\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJeanette Winterson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container__content u-separator-right\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"post-text\"\u003e\n\u003csection\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 256 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283644039549,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781804181379.jpg?v=1710595677","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/hold-back-the-night-by-jessica-moor-1","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}