Lisa McInerney’s first novel, The Glorious Heresies, won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize, was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short stories have been featured on BBC Radio 4 and in Granta, the Stinging Fly, and the anthologies The Long Gaze Back and Faber’s Town and Country. Lisa lives in Galway with her husband, their daughter, and a dog named Angua.
“Drugs, booze, obscenity, violence and black humor fuel Lisa
McInerney’s audacious first novel. . . . The Glorious Heresies is
impressive for its moral complexity, and for the energy and
virtuosity of its language: a strange, pleasing music that lingers
in your mind.” —The New York Times
“A bleak, powerful novel. . . . Darkly comic. . . . McInerney
writes an energetic, profane prose laced with the vibrant idiom of
Cork street life.” —The Washington Post
"A wonderfully offbeat voice. . . . McInerney’s characters aren’t
what anyone would call saints, but they’re so richly drawn you have
to respect the way they think and sympathize with their moral
conflicts." —The New York Times Book Review
“Lisa McInerney’s first novel takes off like a house on fire and
doesn’t stop until it has singed the reader’s heart. Love, crime,
and cockeyed redemption meet on a hardscrabble housing estate in
County Cork, Ireland, in a rare blend of heartbreak and humour. . .
. Ms McInerney is a writer to watch.” —The Economist
“McInerney's debut won the 2016 Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction,
and you can see why from the first page. Her lively, unexpected
prose brings these characters—and the crucible of their
surroundings—to life.” —Elle
“The novel’s searing take on contemporary Cork is elegantly
leavened by empathy and humor. . . . McInerney’s characters are
vibrantly-drawn, richly-rendered, and wonderfully full of
surprises.” —The Boston Globe
“Wonderful. . . . What could be a grim tale is lifted by
McInerney’s eye for black comedy. . . . I would highly recommend it
for the sheer musicality of the language.” —The Paris Review
Daily
“A smart and sharp tale of Ireland’s fringe inhabitants, The
Glorious Heresies only cements its author's esteemed
reputation as one of her nation's most brilliant novelists.”
—Refinery29
“The Glorious Heresies is a blisteringly good debut which manifests
the true coming of a brilliant new energy in Irish fiction. It's a
love story which captures perfectly the feeling of what it is to be
young and bowled over by the beauty of another; it's the story of a
city, savage and hilarious and coursing deeper and deeper, with
every page into that city's dark veins. It's so much more. It's
talent, undeniable and aglow.” —Belinda McKeon
“The Glorious Heresies heralds the arrival of a glorious,
foul-mouthed, fizzing new talent.” —The Sunday Times
“A spectacular debut . . . Tough and tender, gothic and lyrical, it
is a head-spinning, stomach-churning state-of-the-nation novel
about a nation falling apart.” —The Telegraph
“This book is a riot . . . McInerney’s sentences are like snowballs
rolling down a hill, accumulating jokes and fecks and similes spun
from pitch-black humor.” –BOMB
“Here's a writer who's totally and unmistakably the real deal and
whose every page pulses with vim and vitality and mad twisty
insights and terrific description and with real tenderness, too.”
—Kevin Barry
“A gripping and often riotously funny tale . . .
McInerney gives us a memorable cast that are tough as nails,
savagely articulate, and helplessly human.” —Colin Barrett
“A real stunner; a wild ride of a read” —Donal Ryan
“A punchy, edgy, sexy, fizzing feast of a debut novel
from an immensely skilled storyteller with a glorious
passion for words. I loved it” —Joseph O’Connor
“A spectacular debut . . . Tough and tender, gothic and lyrical, it
is a head-spinning, stomach-churning state-of-the-nation novel
about a nation falling apart” —The Telegraph
“Fiendishly hilarious.” —The Times
“McInerney has talent to burn” —The Guardian
“A superb debut from a confident and comic writer.” —Mail on
Sunday
“A rich, touching, hilarious novel.”— Financial Times
“A big, brassy sexy beast of a book.” —The Irish Times
“This is a daring, exuberant and generous novel. And a work to
which you will want—eagerly—to return.” —The Observer
“Impressive and imaginative . . . a superb debut from a
confident and comic writer with no fear of taking on serious
material; McInerney is a new talent to watch out
for.” —Irish Mail on Sunday
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