Maggie Harley and Róise have spent their twenties careering around the bars of Belfast with
riotous abandon the wine cheap and the memories priceless. However the three of them used to
be four and now one year on from a tragic accident Maggie Harley and Róise are still
shaken by the sudden death of their best friend Lydia. Struggling to process their loss and
afraid to let go of the home and the life they shared together the three women each find the
nights becoming wilder and the days more full of regret. Maggie's anxiety has taken a turn for
the worse since the death of her friend and her ongoing situationship with an unreliable
emotionally unavailable woman plunges her further into uncertainty. Róise embarks on a slow
simmering flirtation with a work colleague tempted but fearful at the idea that it could
become more. And between blackout drinking and one-night-stands with strangers Harley fills
her time working as a hotel receptionist poorly re-learning to play the piano and sexually
obsessing over their landlord. As Maggie Harley and Róise spiral into chaos the memory of
their last worst fight with Lydia hangs heavy and unspoken over their heads. Their house is
crumbling around them and the city that raised them seems full of ghosts as the three of them
try to piece themselves back together. Thirst Trap is a brilliant and beautiful page turner of
a novel a bittersweet bitingly funny at times painfully relatable story about the
friendships that endure through the very best and the very worst of times.
