The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Shelley Atkinson
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Contemporary
Winner of the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2016., Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2016., Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2016., Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year., He was definitely dead, whoever he was. He wore a once-black jumper and a pair of shiny tracksuit bottoms. The back of his head was cracked and his hair matted, but it had been foxy before that., A tall man, a skinny rake, another string of piss, now departed. She hadnt gotten a look at his face before she flaked him with the Holy Stone, and she couldnt bring herself to turn him over., One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Irelands postcrash society. Ryan is a 15-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony, whose obsession with his unhinged next-door neighbour threatens to ruin him and his family. Georgie is a prostitute whose willingness to feign a religious conversion has dangerous repercussions while M
