{"product_id":"twenty-twenty-vision","title":"Twenty-Twenty Vision","description":"Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre about a man who has loved her for decades; Bernard Travers revisits an unlikely romantic interlude with the mother of his teenage pen pal that has sustained him for 40 years. Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of interlinked short stories about hindsight and late middle-age regret subtly framed within the first year of the pandemic. It's also a portrait, an emotional map of the 1950s generation moving into the third age with a mixture of apprehension and regret. The characters make chastening discoveries – one finds after a lifetime that she's a bullying victim, another draws up a curriculum vitae of her emotional life when there are no jobs left to apply for. The work focuses on a handful of characters – Christine, Olivia, Possible, the overarching narrative is connected by character and situation, and united in theme, to form a tapestry of late middle-age reckoning. Bernard, Freddie, Triona and Eva – as they revisit their past and grapple with late-life perspectives.","brand":"Mary Morrissy","offers":[{"title":"Lilliput Press, Limited, The \/ 2025 \/ B54","offer_id":54827566563669,"sku":"9781843519164","price":3.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/184351916X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg?v=1788369245","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/twenty-twenty-vision","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}