The Blood Miracles, Lisa McInerney
The Blood Miracles, Lisa McInerney
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The Blood Miracles
the addictive, high-octane sequel to Women's Prize for Fiction-winning The Glorious Heresies

Author: Lisa McInerney

Narrator: Shelley Atkinson

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 04/20/2017


Synopsis

The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies.

Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening a new black market route from Italy to Ireland. It is certainly not a good time for his adored girlfriend to decide he's irreparably corrupted. And he really wishes he hadn't accidentally caught the eye of an ornery grandmother who fancies herself his saviour.

There may be a way clear of the chaos in the business proposals of music promoter Colm and in the attention of the charming, impulsive Natalie. But now that his boss's ambitions have rattled the city, Ryan is about to find out what he's made of, and it might be that chaos is in his blood.

(P)2017 John Murray Press

About Lisa McInerney

Lisa McInerney's work has featured in Winter Papers, Stinging Fly, Granta and on BBC Radio 4, and in the anthologies Beyond The Centre, The Long Gaze Back and Town and Country. Her debut novel, The Glorious Heresies, won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 and the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second novel, The Blood Miracles, was published by John Murray in April 2017.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

Apparently this is an unpopular opinion, but I loved this just as much as The Glorious Heresies. I understand why a lot of people didn't. The Glorious Heresies is dark but it still retains a lot of signature Irish humor, and some warmth along with that. The Blood Miracles on the other hand is just a......more

Goodreads review by Meike

The Blood Miracles - now available in German! I see why McInerney has been called the Irish Irvine Welsh: This book is unapologetically dark and gritty, it depicts criminals and the poor working class without condemning violence, alcohol and drug use. Accordingly, the main strength of the novel is no......more


Quotes

This summer I can wholeheartedly recommend Lisa McInerney's novel The Blood Miracles, the devastatingly brilliant follow-up to her prize-winning debut The Glorious Heresies. In my inexpert opinion, McInerney's hero Ryan Cusack is quickly becoming one of Irish fiction's iconic protagonists Sally Rooney, Irish Times

If you like Trainspotting, Peaky Blinders, Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino then this is a rackety, kinetic, hold-your-attention-at-gunpoint book The Times

The narration is brisk and slick, the dialogue fizzing with acerbic wisecracking Literary Review

Lisa McInerney is a writer busily combining the traditions of hardcore Irish crime writing with the kind of fast-talking foul-mouthed wit and gentle good humour that readers will recall from the work of Roddy Doyle, and producing popular state-of-the-nation novels as a consequence Times Literary Supplement

An addictive read Guardian

Trainspotting meets Goodfellas . . . McInerney writes with delicious irreverence and her fiction in this book has a fast, filmic quality Evening Standard

McInerney writes with enviable verve, swagger and humour Mail on Sunday

Delectable and vigorously entertaining Irish Independent

Lively, entertaining, salty and funny Irish Examiner

Vivid, compelling and moving Observer


Awards

  • Dylan Thomas Prize
  • Encore Award