This story caught my interest right away with 15 year old Ryan and a girl who had been in his class for the past three years. A simply brilliant novel that comes highly recommended! Many thanks to John Murray Press for an ARC.
The beautiful and intense prose, often lyrical, is a real joy. This book is not likely to appeal to readers who are easily shocked, but for the rest of us, this is an outstanding, unmissable and wildly irreverent read of a group of people in search of redemption. McInerney creates a cracking set of unbelievably complex and charismatic characters, not all are likeable, but you cannot help but find them desperately compelling. Essentially, this is a colourful tale of sex, drugs, alcohol, crime and religion, and delivered with such panache with its 'in your face' earthy and gritty style. You cannot have a book set in Ireland without reference to the Catholic Church, there is Georgia, a prostitute who finds religion while McInerney adroitly reveals the hypocrisies of the church. The murder sets off a series of consequences that bring mayhem and danger to a number of characters. The mess created by the dead body needs cleaning up, for which Jimmy plans to hire Tony to help him. Maureen Phelan is the mother of Jimmy, the king of the criminal underbelly of Cork, and finds herself committing the unintended murder of an unfortunate intruder. There is the unspeakable horror that is the larger than life neighbour. 15 year old drug dealer Ryan Cusack has no intention of being anything like his violent and alcoholic dad, Tony, and he is mad for Karine, and wonder of wonders, she likes him.
A gloriously moving, blackly comic, filthy and vibrant story from the award winning Lisa McInerney set in the rough port city of Cork in Ireland.
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