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LISA MCINERNEY - GEBRAUCHT THE GLORIOUS HERESIE...

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 'He was definitely dead  whoever he was.
He wore a once-black jumper and a pair of shiny tracksuit bottoms. The back of his head was
cracked and his hair matted  but it had been foxy before that. A tall man  a skinny rake 
another string of piss  now departed. She hadn't gotten a look at his face before she flaked
him with the Holy Stone and she couldn't bring herself to turn him over.' One messy murder
affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society.
Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father Tony
whose obsession with his unhinged next-door neighbour threatens to ruin him and his family.
Georgie is a prostitute whose willingness to feign a religious conversion has dangerous
repercussions  while Maureen  the accidental murderer  has returned to Cork after forty years
in exile to discover that Jimmy  the son she was forced to give up years before  has grown into
the most fearsome gangster in the city. In seeking atonement for the murder and a multitude of
other perceived sins  Maureen threatens to destroy everything her son has worked so hard for 
while her actions risk bringing the intertwined lives of the Irish underworld into the
spotlight . . . Biting  moving and darkly funny  The Glorious Heresies explores salvation 
shame and the legacy of Ireland's twentieth-century attitudes to sex and family.

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