The Blood Miracles

Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes the type of fiction that is both beautifully crafted and immensely enjoyable. She is one of the most exciting young authors to come out of Ireland in the last decade Louise O'Neill The Blood Miracles has all the brio, street smarts and vicious linguistic verve of The Glorious Heresies, but with this follow up Lisa McInerney also reminds us just how brilliantly accomplished and ruthlessly focused a storyteller she is Colin Barrett 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 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 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