Description
In the gritty streets of Cork, a teenage drug dealer, a young woman selling herself to survive, and a mother with a long-buried past collide in a chain of choices that spirals toward violence and moral reckoning. When an accidental killing drags Maureen back into the life she tried to escape, her search for atonement threatens to upend the future her son has fought to build—while the city’s underworld closes ranks around them. With dark humor and sharp, street-level realism, the novel explores faith and hypocrisy, the cost of survival, and how “redemption” can become its own kind of danger. Lisa McInerney’s bold, unsentimental style—rooted in her reputation for fearless commentary—turns the Holy Trinity of drugs, drink, and prostitution into a tense, human story about family, guilt, and the heresies we commit to stay alive.
Available Editions
paperback
Hodder & Stoughton
Published Jan 1, 2016
371 pages
ISBN: 9781444798883
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Details
First Published
2015
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney.