2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Winner.
Announcing the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies.
The Glorious Heresies/ Lisa McInerney
A searing debut novel about life on the fringes of Ireland’s post-crash society. When grandmother Maureen Phelan is surprised in her home by a stranger, she clubs the intruder with a Holy Stone. The consequences of this unplanned murder connect four misfits struggling against their meager circumstances. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony, whose feud with his next-door neighbor threatens to ruin his family. Georgie is a sex worker who half-heartedly joins a born-again movement to escape her profession and drug habit. And Jimmy Phelan, the most fearsome gangster in the city and Maureen’s estranged son, finds that his mother’s bizarre attempts at redemption threaten his entire organization.
Shortlisted TitlesThe Glorious Heresies/ Lisa McInerney
The Improbability of Love/ Hannah Rothschild
The Portable Veblen/ Elizabeth McKenzie
A Little Life/ Hanya Yanagihara
The Green Road/ Anne Enright
Ruby/ Cynthia Bond
