Product Description
Thirst Trap
Author: Gráinne O'Hare
Format: Paperback
The International Bestseller WINNER of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award Shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize 'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' – Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller 'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' – Independent Belfast: three girls are living for the weekend, their friendship the only thing that matters. Harley: hurtling from club to club in a wild and blurry quest for meaning.
Maggie: navigating a situationship with an unavailable woman, and, of course, therapy. Róise: only bothering to turn up to her boring office job due to an ill-advised crush on her boss.
But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident that almost ripped the group apart, Harley, Maggie and Róise still can't face up to any of it: to adulthood, the future, or to one another. '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'
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