One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father Tony, whose obsession with his unhinged next-door neighbour threatens to ruin him and his family. Georgie is a prostitute whose willingness to feign a religious conversion has dangerous repercussions, while Maureen, the accidental murderer, has returned to Cork after forty years in exile to discover that Jimmy, the son she was forced to give up years before, has grown into the most fearsome gangster in the city. In seeking atonement for the murder and a multitude of other perceived sins, Maureen threatens to destroy everything her son has worked so hard for, while her actions risk bringing the intertwined lives of the Irish underworld into the spotlight . . .

Author

Lisa McInerney

Lisa McInerney’s work has featured in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, Granta and BBC Radio 4 and in the anthologies Beyond The Centre, The Long Gaze Back and Town and Country. Her debut novel The Glorious Heresies won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2016 Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second novel, The Blood Miracles, is published by John Murray in April 2017.

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Series: Ryan Cusack

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2015
Review Review - The Glorious Heresies, Lisa McInerney
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Blog The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Karen Chisholm
Friday, March 6, 2015
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9781444798852
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Review Review - The Glorious Heresies, Lisa McInerney
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Blog The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Karen Chisholm
Friday, March 6, 2015

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