Book description
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016
We all do stupid things when we're kids.
Ryan Cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for you.
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Glorious Heresies as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In a way, this felt like an Irish Demon Copperhead, what with its direct, unflinching, surprising, often hilarious descriptions, and its pace.
And like I did reading both my other favorites, I spent my time in love with the protagonist – ‘Ryan was the oldest of the wreck’s children. He tiptoed around his father and made up for it around everyone else’ – rooting for him and the people he loved, booing the people who could hurt him.
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