And Jimmy Phelan, the most fearsome gangster in the city and Maureen’s estranged son, finds that his mother’s bizarre attempts at redemption threaten his entire organization.īiting and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies presents an unforgettable vision of a city plagued by poverty and exploitation, where salvation still awaits in the most unexpected places. Georgie is a sex worker who half-heartedly joins a born-again movement to escape her profession and drug habit. Her debut novel The Glorious Heresies won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2016 Desmond Elliott Prize. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony, whose feud with his next-door neighbor threatens to ruin his family. 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. The consequences of this unplanned murder connect four misfits struggling against their meager circumstances. The plot explores drug and alcohol abuse, religion and organised crime.
When grandmother Maureen Phelan is surprised in her home by a stranger, she clubs the intruder with a Holy Stone. The Glorious Heresies is a novel by Irish author Lisa McInerney, published in 2015 by John Murray. Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prizeįrom Lisa McInerney, hailed by The Irish Times as “arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today,” comes The Glorious Heresies, a searing debut novel about life on the fringes of Ireland’s post-crash society. Shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards
Youre crosser about my language in the confessional than you are about the fact that I killed a man. Whats tied to the earth is less important than whats tied to the heavens. Winner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies 1 likes Like Its a funny thing that the ritual is more powerful than the killing.
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