{"product_id":"begotten-not-made-like-stars-in-the-time-of-frost-by-mr-pat-higgins","title":"Begotten Not Made by Pat Higgins","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in 1921. Ireland is in the throes of the struggle for Independence. In County Galway, the countryside is aflame. The Big Houses are burning and the Black \u0026amp; Tans are running amok. The Kelly sisters, Winnie and Tessie, make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives, their families and their descendants. Joe Kilgarriff has recently returned from England to help his aging mother Mary run the family farm. He is in his early thirties and wants to get married. He is not his mother’s favourite son, and has been actively involved as a Volunteer in the Irish Nationalist movement. Winnie Kelly is in her early thirties, and with the Irish war of Independence raging and immigration taking young men away, spinsterhood beckons for Winnie and Tessie. Tessie meets Michael Fox ( Mick ), he is dashing and charming, and recently returned from New Zealand. The sisters have two quite different romances. Church and State, the Police and the parish priest exert control over the women’s lives and their respective choices are a gamble, on life, love and on two very different men. The sister’s choices separate them until their lives are again entwined in tragedy, grief, loss and ultimately a kind of redemption. Begotten Not Made is based on a true story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43686520062026,"sku":"6751ae","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6751ae.jpg?v=1781066870","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/begotten-not-made-like-stars-in-the-time-of-frost-by-mr-pat-higgins","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}