Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. She is the editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers (named for a line from Maeve Brennan, which includes a story by Brennan), The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland and The Art of Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. Sinéad also collaborates with artists and musicians, with commissions from The Wellcome Collection, BBC, Frieze and various galleries. In 2022, with Kim Gordon, she co-edited This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music, published by White Rabbit Books, and Hagstone is her first novel.
‘A wonderfully surprising and totally original novel from a compelling voice’ Elaine Feeney, author of How to Build a Boat ‘An intelligent, probing novel about isolation, art, and the incompatible desires for both solitude and community’ Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet 'I felt that I was in a great folk horror film. I wasn't just watching it; I was in it. It is a startling, engrossing, darkly playful novel' Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 'A mingling of mystery, folklore, sci-fi and self-discovery, Hagstone is an entirely original tale that left me haunted and moved. I loved it.' Jennifer Higgie, author of The Other Side 'A brilliant, gripping novel' Sara Baume, author of A Line Made By Walking ‘Tender and inclusive, fierce and unapologetic. A portrait of the myriad and often conflicting desires that burn within the deep, hot core of women’ Sue Rainsford, author of Redder Days 'A beautiful, unsettling novel about the possibility of a woman crafting the shape of her own life, and the eternal connections we all have to the earth, sea and sky' Rebecca Tamas, author of Strangers ‘Such a beautiful read’ Cosey Fanny Tutti, author of Art Sex Music ‘I loved this beautiful, eerie novel' Patrick Freyne, author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea ‘A wildly seductive, gothic feminine tale of the sea, art, folklore, the past, women, power and more. I am bereft now I’ve finished it’ Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places ‘I sometimes found myself holding my breath, as if under water, as I read this brilliant novel’ Sally Huband, author of Sea Bean