In her acceptance speech she described winning the award as ‘bizarre and wonderful’.

‘I keep thinking, were not many books published this year,’ she said modestly. The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney review the Sweary Lady is on bellicose form Read more Set on the fringes of society in post-crash Ireland, The Glorious Heresies features drug.

When we spoke to Lisa before she was announced as the winner, she talked about how gobsmacked she was to even be on the shortlist. McInerney started her career as a writer with a blog about life on a council estate called The Arse End Of Ireland, which won several awards and caught the attention of an agent who urged her to write a novel. Review: The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney is quite a read. 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. New York Time’s Book Review’s 10 Best Crime Novels of the year. 'One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Irelands post-crash society. A fresh new voice and a wonderful winner.’ Biting 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. The judges, including The Apprentice’s Margaret Mountford, said of the book: ‘Lisa McInerney’s The Glorious Heresies is a superbly original, compassionate novel that delivers insights into the very darkest of lives through humour and skilful storytelling. The council estate setting may be bleak but McInerney’s black humour lifts it to greater heights.

The Glorious Heresies is set in a post-recession Cork where an accidental murder affects the lives of five misfits, including a young drug dealer and an alcoholic father. The other shortlisted titles included The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild and The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie. Lisa McInerney’s beat off competition from a strong Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, including Booker prize winner Anne Enright with The Green Road, New York Times bestseller Cynthia Bond’s Ruby and the controversial A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Lisa McInerneys 'The Glorious Heresies' captures the gritty life and pain of the underclass in present day Cork.

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