{"product_id":"i-could-read-the-sky","title":"I Could Read the Sky","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A book of tunes without musical notes. It wrings the heart’ John Berger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER: Encore Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAn old man lies alone and sleepless in London. Recalling an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland, he begins to remember a migrant’s life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind, he calls forth the bars and boxing booths of England, the potato fields and building sites, the music he played and the woman he loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTimothy O’Grady’s tender, vivid prose and Steve Pyke’s starkly beautiful photographs combine to make a unique work of fiction, an act of remembering suffused with loss, defiance and an unforgettable loveliness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFirst published in 1997, \u003ci\u003eI Could Read the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e – an Irish life with echoes of the lives of unregarded migrant workers everywhere – has achieved the status of a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘Fiction rarely gets as close to the messy, glorious truth as do memories and photographs. This rare novel dares to use both’ \u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte Mendelson, \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘The voice that O’Grady has crafted succeeds so well. Pyke’s stark arresting images are laced between the paragraphs and chapters. The interplay between the two is delicately powerful’ \u003cstrong\u003eHilary White\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘A masterpiece’ \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Macfarlane\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘O’Grady does not just respond to Pyke’s stark, beautiful photographs: he gives voice to thousands’ \u003cstrong\u003eLouise Kennedy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘The experience of Irish emigration uniquely and powerfully illuminated’ \u003cstrong\u003eMark Knopfler\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePaperback: 288pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (March 2026)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN:\u003cspan\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e9781806770717\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilton Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58627800891776,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/files\/811wDSeztQL._SL1500_2820f23d-b94b-455e-830b-2ee5a39ad057.jpg?v=1785754352","url":"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/products\/i-could-read-the-sky","provider":"Eye Books Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}