The glorious heresies
by Lisa McInerney
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One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. Ryan is a fifteen-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 Maureen, the accidental murderer, has returned to Cork after forty years in exile to discover that Jimmy, the son she was forced to give up years before, has grown into the most fearsome gangster in the city. In seeking atonement for the murder and a multitude of other perceived sins, Maureen threatens to destroy everything her son has worked so hard for, while her actions risk bringing the intertwined lives of the Irish underworld into the spotlight . . .
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Organized crime, Social life and customs, Murder, Prostitutes, Fiction, Gangsters, Interpersonal relations, Drug dealers, Manners and customs, Ireland, fiction, Fiction, crimePlaces
Cork (Ireland), Ireland, CorkTimes
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The Glorious Heresies: Winner of the Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction 2016
Apr 08, 1784, John Murray
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1444798855 9781444798852
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