{"product_id":"did-you-pay-the-piper-man-9798233621994","title":"Did You Pay the Piper Man?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hanna Nielson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ui Neill Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ui Neill Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn time, Fate is a matter of choice...\u003cbr\u003e ...chance... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDid You Pay the Piper Man? by Hanna Nielson\u003cbr\u003eA debut literary fiction magic realism novel \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLOGLINE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBOOK BLURB \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBelfast 2005.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrian 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA richly textured and psychologically observant tapestry of multiple storylines, \u003cem\u003eDid You Pay the Piper Man?\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eU� N�ill Press, 2025 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Ui Neill Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47595261100183,"sku":"9798233621994","price":1549.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233621994.webp?v=1774989058","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/did-you-pay-the-piper-man-9798233621994","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}