![]() Angry, funny and full of heart * Guardian summer reads * This year's Baileys prize winner, the interlinked stories of chancers, gangsters and no-hopers in Cork city, is crime caper, teen romance and blisteringly dark social satire all rolled into one. It just feels true * Sunday Times *Ī rambunctious portrayal of a swaggering off-kilter underclasss * Sunday Times * As in Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh at their best, it doesn't feel gratuitous. ![]() There is the humour and the sheer, seething, broiling energy of the prose, which is peppered with the kind of language your mother would call unforgivable. a fascinating and accomplished commentary on modern Irish life * Big Issue *Ī daring, exuberant and generous novel * Observer * a head-spinning, stomach-churning state-of-the-nation novel about a nation falling apart * Telegraph *Ī big, brassy, sexy beast of a book * Irish Times *Ī superb debut from a confident and comic writer * Mail on Sunday *Īll the trappings of a possible future classic. A rich, touching, hilarious novel * Financial Times *Ī spectacular debut. ![]()
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