Thirst Trap
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Thirst Trap
A wildly original debut set in Belfast: full of the pain, joy and bad decisions arising from young friendship, grief and bad house shares.
Bold, gutsy, chaotic and hilarious: Thirst Trap is the triumphant debut novel by Gráinne O'Hare which announces her as an electric new talent.
The International Bestseller
'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller
'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' - Independent
In a crumbling Belfast houseshare, three women are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the core of their lives.
Maggie: navigating the twin perils of therapy and a situationship with an unavailable woman.
Harley: careening from club to club, hookup to hookup, in a blurry quest for meaning.
Róise: about to turn thirty, her crush on her boss the only reason she still turns up to work.
But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident, Maggie, Róise and Harley still can't face up to any of it: to the death of their best friend, adulthood, the future, and to each other.
'Compulsively readable and brilliant on friendship and grief. I raced through it' - Daily Mail
'So funny, taut and complex' - Wendy Erskine, author of The Benefactors
'Like the literary love child of Miranda July and Carrie Fisher, transposed in Belfast - hilarious, smart and chaotic in the best way' - Louise Nealon, author of Snowflake
Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards
A Most-Anticipated Novel of Year - DAZED, Irish Times, RTÉ
Readers are raving about Thirst Trap:
'Made me laugh and cry in equal measure'
'Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving . . . I loved every page of it'
'Sharp, funny, and deeply relatable'
'This book is the moment'
'I mourned this being over. It's sad and beautiful and real and messy. It's perfect'
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035046218
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 198g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Gráinne O'Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022, and was awarded funding by the Arts Council in 2023 for the development and completion of her first novel. She has also been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition and the Bridport Prize, and came in the top three of the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition in 2021 and 2022. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Thirst Trap is her first novel.
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