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Aingeala Flannery is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. She has completed an MFA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin. Her short story 'Visiting Hours' was the winner of the 2019 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Competition. In 2020 and 2021, she was awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland. Her work has appeared in The Bath Anthology and has been broadcast on RT Radio One as part of the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition. She lives in Dublin. The Amusements is her first book.
If you like dark humour, superbly drawn characters, caravan parks, fish suppers and slot machines, The Amusements is what you've been waiting for -- Jan Carson Brilliant. Dramatic, heartfelt, sometimes shocking and sad -- Sue Leonard * Irish Examiner * Unputdownable . . . one of the best novels of the year -- Estelle Birdy * Sunday Independent * The writing, so true to small-town life, is both shrewd and enlarging. Flannery writes like a grown-up; her flawed, hopeful characters live and grow on the page -- Anne Enright Its effortless evocations of the tides and pulls of small-town life are note perfect . . . It's often very funny, sometimes sad, always authentic and perceptive, and hugely entertaining. Beautiful -- Donal Ryan
