{"product_id":"hanna-nielson-did-you-pay-the-piper-man-9798233621994","title":"Did You Pay the Piper Man?","description":"In time, Fate is a matter of choice... ...chance...\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDid You Pay the Piper Man? by Hanna NielsonA debut literary fiction magic realism novel\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLOGLINE\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOn a winter's night in Celtic Tiger era Belfast, an ex-boxer, an American writer, and busy hotel manager search for redemption as timelines split apart - and only the tune of a homeless piper man can heal the rift.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBOOK BLURB\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBelfast 2005. On a busy night before Christmas, the struggles of a former boxer, a young American writer, and a beleaguered hotel manager intertwine when timelines split. Each searches for redemption as their fates unravel, and the difference between choice or chance is the flip of a coin. Weaving through it all is a homeless piper man whose haunting melody holds the key to healing the rift - if only someone will listen.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBrian Legarty, an ex-boxer still suffering the effects of a head injury that ended his career, is at his wits end tending bar alone for a surging crowd that won't stop coming. When he crosses the road to a luxury hotel to ask for help, a misunderstanding between mates turns violent - but in another timeline, he mets the beautiful American writer, and their star-crossed love story begins.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt's one of several stories that alternate between alienation and connection during this one-night Odyssey through Belfast, across time, into the Celtic underworld and back again.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA richly textured and psychologically observant tapestry of multiple storylines, Did You Pay the Piper Man? is set during an age of heady excess and uneasy changes of post-Troubles Belfast. But it is, above all, a celebration of friendship in all its forms that can redeem us across the any divide, even death.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nUí Néill Press, 2025","brand":"Uí Néill Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53818593083734,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/hanna-nielson-did-you-pay-the-piper-man-9798233621994","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}