Thirst Trap

A funny and bittersweet story about the messy reality of friendship

AvGráinne O'Hare

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The International BestsellerShortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' - IndependentBelfast: three girls are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the only thing that matters. Harley: hurtling from club to club in a wild and blurry quest for meaning.Maggie: navigating a situationship with an unavailable woman, and, of course, therapy.Róise: only bothering to turn up to her boring office job due to an ill-advised crush on her boss.But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident that almost ripped them apart, Harley, Maggie and Róise still can’t face up to any of it: to adulthood, the future, and to each other.'An emotional wild ride in all the best ways' - Dakota Johnson, TEATIME Book club '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 SnowflakeShortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book AwardsA Most Anticipated Novel of the Year - DAZED, Irish Times, RTÉReaders 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'

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-12
Mått:146 x 226 x 28 mm
Vikt:396 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Pan Macmillan
ISBN:9781035046195

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Gráinne 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 and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and has completed a PhD on eighteenth-century's women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Her debut novel, Thirst Trap, was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.