'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.
