SHORTLISTED FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON
BURN PRIZE 'The style of Woolf but the heart of Dickens . . . impressive' Sunday Times 'A
blistering debut . . . vital reading' Spectator 'A powerful moving compelling utterly
enthralling debut' Jon McGregor author of Reservoir 13 'So fresh so sharp so wry so
alive' Lucy Caldwell author of These Days 'I miss it already . . . What a beautiful
hilarious blast of brilliance' Donal Ryan author of Heart Be at Peace 'A cast of
characters so vividly drawn it feels like you've known them all your life' Colin Walsh author
of Kala 'There's not a sentence I don't believe or a character I don't feel something for .
. . what a joy it is to read' Michael Magee author of Close to Home From the prize-winning
author of Dance Move and Sweet Home this is an astounding novel about intimate histories
class and money - and what being a parent means. Meet Frankie Miriam and Bronagh: three very
different women from Belfast but all mothers to eighteen-year-old boys. Gorgeous Frankie now
married to a wealthy older man grew up in care. Miriam has recently lost her beloved husband
Kahlil in ambiguous circumstances. Bronagh the CEO of a children's services charity loves
celebrity and prestige. When their sons are accused of sexually assaulting a friend Misty
Johnston they'll come together to protect their children leveraging all the powers they
possess. But on her side Misty has the formidable matriarch Nan D and her father
taxi-driver Boogie: an alliance not so easily dismissed. Brutal tender and rigorously
intelligent The Benefactors is a daring multi-voice presentation of modern-day Northern
Ireland. It is also very funny.
