A Most-Anticipated Novel of 2025 - DAZED, Irish Times, RTE
'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller
'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' - Independent
Sometimes friends hold you together.
Sometimes they're why you're falling apart.
Maggie, Harley and Roise are friends on the brink: of triumph, catastrophe, or maybe just finally growing up. Their crumbling Belfast houseshare has been witness to their roaring twenties, filled with questionable one-night stands and ruthless hangovers. But now fault-lines are beginning to show.
The three girls are still grieving the tragic death of their friend, Lydia, whose room remains untouched. Their last big fight hangs heavy over their heads, unspoken since the accident. And now they are all beginning to unravel.
Thirst Trap by Grainne O'Hare is a blazing, bittersweet, bitingly funny, and painfully relatable story about the friendships that endure through the very best and the very worst of times.
'Compulsively readable and brilliant on friendship and grief. I raced through it' - Daily Mail
'So funny, taut and complex' - Wendy Erskine, author of The Benefactors
'Like the literary love child of Miranda July and Carrie Fisher, transposed in Belfast - hilarious, smart and chaotic in the best way' - Louise Nealon, author of Snowflake
Readers are raving about Thirst Trap:
'Made me laugh and cry in equal measure'
'Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving . . . I loved every page of it'
'Sharp, funny, and deeply relatable'
'This book is the moment'
'I mourned this being over. It's sad and beautiful and real and messy. It's perfect'
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' -- Alice Slater, author of <i>Death of a Bookseller<i/> It's compulsively readable and brilliant on friendship and grief. I raced through it -- <i>Daily Mail</i> Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark . . . O'Hare has a true gift for a visceral simile, her sandpapery prose scribbling vivid pictures of messy pleasure that you can practically smell off the tequila-soaked page * The Independent * 'So funny, taut and complex' -- Wendy Erskine, author of <i>The Benefactors<i/> An absolute riot - funny, compassionate, observant and wise . . . O'Hare attends so closely, so wittily and so empathetically to every single one of these characters . . . enormously impressive and fun * The Irish Times * 'Brilliant. The characters were so warm and real, I felt like I knew them. A beautiful look at friendship and transition, it was funny, bittersweet, and honest' -- Chloe Michelle Howarth, author of <i>Sunburn</i> Raucous, sexy and f*cking hilarious. A heady mix of Michael Magee's Close to Home and Lena Dunham's Girls. Everybody should read this book. -- Aimee Walsh, author of <i>Exile</i> 'An absolutely cracking read . . . Grainne O'Hare has a keen eye, a sharp wit, pitch-perfect comic timing and a big heart, and spending time with her and her trio of female friends has all the raucous intimate pleasure of a big night out without any of the hangover. I loved it' -- Lucy Caldwell, author of <i>These Days</i> 'A triumph. Grainne O'Hare is like the literary love child of Miranda July and Carrie Fisher, transposed in Belfast - hilarious, smart and chaotic in the best way' -- Louise Nealon, author of <i>Snowflake</i> 'It's one of those novels that you can't believe is a debut. O'Hare is a writer to watch out for in 2025 and beyond' * RTE * 'A rising star of the Belfast New Wave . . . a book is for anyone who has found themselves on the fraying end of a close friendship, appreciates comedy or experienced their twenties in a blur of high emotion' -- <i>The Irish Post</i> High-velocity, hilarious, and rooted in the chaos and absolute commitment of female friendship. I love her work -- Naomi Booth, author of <i>raw content</i> Highly-relatable. A brilliant portrayal of grief - and of growing up. Written with humour, hope, and warmth * Irish Examiner *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Interest Age: From 18 years
Maße
Höhe: 219 mm
Breite: 142 mm
Dicke: 28 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-0350-4619-5 (9781035046195)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Grainne O'Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition, the Bridport Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Prize and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Thirst Trap is her first novel.
