The Benefactors

Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards

Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize

'What a joy it is to read'

'I couldn't put this book down'

'Powerful, moving, compelling, utterly enthralling'

'A prodigiously talented author: funny and brutal by turns'

'The style of Woolf but the heart of Dickens'

'Vital reading'

'I miss it already . . . What a beautiful, hilarious blast of brilliance'

'A cast of characters so vividly drawn it feels like you've known them all your life'

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.