{"product_id":"folly-lane-a-novel","title":"Folly Lane - a novel","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003ePRE ORDER  Damian Smyth's debut novel  here. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003eFolly Lane  - a novel,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e  is a biographic novel skilfully weaving its weft of narratives and private text, all drawn from the public  world amongst the warp of a modern world in flux, tethered by histories of order chaos and failure. The novel reaches from imperial Rome to 21st century Ireland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003eFolly Lane,  a place in Downpatrick, a ‘street’, is a cul-de-sac \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e pathway, a side road - never a thoroughfare, but a misstep- so maybe a metaphor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e a fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm -2.3pt .0001pt 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003eNothing there is owned, not even ‘autobiography’ where ‘i’ is a population of multiple selves, every ampersand reveals another diorama \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e even formulaic utterances – prayers, invocations, testimonies, mission statements, visions, strategies reveal mesmerising, ‘enchanting’ patterns of expression. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm -2.3pt .0001pt 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm -2.3pt .0001pt 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003eMemorable \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e telling - moreover, useful.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003eWithin this fiction of self we discover stories, narratives, messages \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e lessons underpinned by irony, hyperbole \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e fable in a miasma of satire, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e Lord knows, even if we don’t look for one, there is inevitably a moral at work…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003eISBN 9781911132905\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Californian FB',serif;\"\u003eHardback: 179pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Californian FB, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication: 31st August 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"templarpoetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55596186141048,"sku":"Folly_Lane_HB","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0099\/4982\/files\/FOLLYLANECOVERWEB.jpg?v=1783087928","url":"https:\/\/templarpoetry.com\/products\/folly-lane-a-novel","provider":"templarpoetry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}