The Glorious Heresies
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The Glorious Heresies
The Glorious Heresies
A JM Classics edition of the Women's Prize for Fiction-winning novel, The Glorious Heresies, the first in the sexy, brassy, riotous Cork trilogy, introduced by Kevin Barry
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KEVIN BARRY
Winner of the Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction 2016
Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2016
We all do stupid things when we're kids.
Ryan Cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for you.
And nobody says Ryan's stupid. Not even behind his back.
It's the people around him who are the problem. The gangland boss using his dad as a 'cleaner'. The neighbour who says she's trying to help but maybe wants something more than that. The prostitute searching for the man she never knew she'd miss until he disappeared without trace one night...
The only one on Ryan's side is his girlfriend Karine. If he blows that, he's all alone.
But the truth is, you don't know your own strength till you need it.
Series: The Glorious Heresies
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399827157
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 August 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Lisa McInerney's work has featured in Winter Papers, Stinging Fly, Granta and on BBC Radio 4, and in the anthologies Beyond The Centre, The Long Gaze Back and Town and Country. Her debut novel, The Glorious Heresies, won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 and the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second novel, The Blood Miracles, was published by John Murray in April 2017.
Also by Lisa McInerney
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